Armor plate that protects the thigh

Usage examples of cuisse.

A rosebush grew at the foot of the tower: a hybrid, half wild rose, half Cuisse de Nymphe, with twelve petals and briary canes.

He wore a jubon or close vest of crimson cloth, with cuisses or short skirts of yellow satin, a loose cassock of brocade, a rich Moorish scimiter, and a hat with plumes.

Then, as she was stacking the cuisses and brassards of her armor in the breastplate, the king reached over and rearranged them.

Also we have Cuisses de grenouilles la pure d'herbes soupe, fricassee de chanterelles et racines de persil, which are pan-fried frogs' legs in a parsley pure, fricassee of chanterelles and parsley roots.

This was his body: the gorget at his throat, the gauntlet, vambrace, couter of his powerful arms, the bulging pauldron at his shoulders, the cuisse and greave of his legs, the taloned claws of his monstrous feet, all his flesh and scale.

He was dressed in a dark-green dress coat, knee breeches of the color of cuisse de nymphe effrayee, as he called it, shoes, and silk stockings.

And whenever he donned chainmail and breastplate, and the hooped iron skirt and the cuisses and poleyns and greaves, and the plated gauntlets and the heavy stuffy visored helmet, not forgetting the heraldic surcoat which was his badge of identification, so as to take on any band of Bruce’s Scots who came a-raiding, he fought them like a junior Hercules, cleaving and battering.

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.

A rosebush grew at the foot of the tower: a hybrid, half wild rose, half Cuisse de Nymphe, with twelve petals and briary canes.