Crossword clues for tasset
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tasset \Tas"set\, n. [See Tasse.] A defense for the front of the thigh, consisting of one or more iron plates hanging from the belt on the lower edge of the corselet.
Wiktionary
n. A tasse.
WordNet
n. one of two pieces of armor plate hanging from the fauld to protect the upper thighs [syn: tasse]
Usage examples of "tasset".
Tasset plates were buckled to the lower front edges of the taces to protect the upper thighs.
THREE Roger Tasset glanced around the clubroom with the sure eye of a connoisseur, to see if there was anything there which was of interest to him.
He wore the half-armor of a light horseman--gorget, cuirass, steel gauntlets, mail sleeves, and plate tassets on his thighs.
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.