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Plate armor designed to protect the thighs
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tassets
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n. (plural of tasset English)
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Tassets are a piece of plate armour designed to protect the upper thighs. They take the form of separate plates hanging from the breastplate or faulds . They may be made from a single piece or segmented. The segmented style of tassets connected by sliding ...
Usage examples of tassets.
The Royal Attriod in their plumed splendor would surround him, armored cap-a-pie, light splintering off richly ornamented chausses, vambraces, coudieres, genouilliers, tassets, gauntlets.
From the body-armor depended shield-shaped tassets ridged and fluted with pointed arches, prolonging the defense of the skirt over cuisses embellished with jagged wave designs that differed on each thigh.
The Royal Attriod in their plumed splendor surrounded him, armored cap-a-pie, light splintering off richly ornamented chausses, vambraces, coudieres, genouilliers, tassets, gauntlets.
Once more there was only the dull ching of a glass-plated gauntlet striking the skirt of articulated tassets that armored his derriere.