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tasse


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Tasse  \Tasse\,  n.  [OF.  tassette.] 
  A  piece  of  armor  for  the  thighs,  forming  an  appendage  to  the 
  ancient  corselet. 
 
  Note:  Usually  the  tasse  was  a  plate  of  iron  swinging  from  the 
  cuirass,  but  the  skirts  of  sliding  splints  were  also 
  called  by  this  name 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  tasse 
  n  :  one  of  two  piece  of  plate  armor  hanging  from  the  fauld  to 
  protect  the  upper  thighs  [syn:  {tasset}] 




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