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Definition of Chausses
1. n. pl. The garment for the legs and feet and for the body below the waist, worn in Europe throughout the Middle Ages; applied also to the armor for the same parts, when fixible, as of chain mail.
Definition of Chausses
1. medieval armor [n]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chausses
Literary usage of Chausses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Glossary: Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Thomas Wright (1901)
"Thus, haut- ile-chausses, and bas-de-chausses, were the old French names for
those two parts of dress; the latter having retained the abbreviated name of ..."
2. Ancient Armour and Weapons in Europe: From the Iron Period of the Northern by John Hewitt (1860)
"... but from some . memorandums kindly furnished by a friend, it appears that this
knight is habited in hauberk, chausses and coif of banded-mail, ..."
3. The royal phraseological English-French, French-English dictionary by John Charles Tarver (1853)
"Elle porte les chausses, she wears the bret-che*, she is the mistress. ...
Tenir quelqu'un au cul et aux chausses, to pursue sharply—to censure severely—to ..."
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