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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[OF.

tassette

A piece of armor for the thighs, forming an appendage to the ancient corselet.

☞ Usually the tasse was a plate of iron swinging from the cuirass, but the skirts of sliding splints were also called by this name.

See also: tasse, Tasse, and tassé

tâsse f ‎(plural tâsses)