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Tasse
Tasse
,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.
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Tasse
Tasse
German
Noun
Tasse f (genitive Tasse, plural Tassen, diminutive Tässchen n)
- A cup with a handle.
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tasse
tasse
English
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Noun
tasse (plural tasses)
- 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.
- 1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page 21:
- This included the head-piece and gorgett, the back and breast, with skirts of iron called tasses or tassets covering the thighs, as may be seen in the figures, representing the exercise of the pike, published anno 1622, by the title of the Military Art of Training; the same kind of armour was worn by the harquebusiers.
- 1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page 21:
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French
Etymology
From Arabic طَاس (ṭās) (a shortening of طَسْت (ṭast)), from Middle Persian tšt' (tašt), ultimately from the past participle of the Proto-Iranian verb *taš- (“to make, construct; to cut”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tɑs/
Noun
tasse f (plural tasses)
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