chausse

See also: Chausse and chaussé

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French or Middle French chausse (“stocking, cloth covering the leg up to the thigh”).

Pronunciation

• (gallicized) IPA^(key): /ʃoʊs/
• (anglicized) IPA^(key): /tʃɔs/

Noun

chausse (plural chausses)

1. (historical) Armor for the legs, usually made of mail, either covering the entire leg from foot to thigh, or variously covering only the thigh or only the calf and foot, with the chausson covering the other half of the leg.
   • 1907, British Museum, Department of British and Mediaeval Antiquities, Guide to the Mediaeval Room and to the Specimens of Mediaeval and Later Times in the Gold Ornament Room, page 61:

     As the period advanced, the legs were covered with mail chaussons above the knee, and below it with chausses, which were made to cover the feet.

   • 1909, Charles Henry Ashdown, European Arms & Armor, page 76:

     The hauberk is shown continuous with the coif; the legs are protected by chausses of some pliable material, thickly covered with protective studs.

   • 2021, Tao Wong, Adventures on Brad: Books 1-6, Starlit Publishing, →ISBN:

     Daniel grins, feeling the shiv skid off his newly bought chausse. No more getting stabbed in the thigh by these too-short monsters. It was a pain trying to block attacks that came so low with his shield - he either had to stay crouched ...

2. (historical) A stocking, clothing covering the leg.
   • 2012, Johanna Hill, Song of the Rose, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:

     He clasped Matthew tightly on the shoulder. “As I began . . . since my loyal squire is dead, and I am somewhat wounded, more than I'd thought. . .” He pointed to his thigh, where his chausse was ripped and blood dripped to the ground.

   • 2004, Pierre Bouet, The Bayeux Tapestry: Embroidering the Facts of History, Presses Universitaires de Caen:

     A single seam ran under the foot and all the way up the back of the leg; each chausse was cut on the bias of the woollen cloth, so as to retain a degree of elasticity.

Related terms

• chaussé

Anagrams

• Chauses, chauses

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French chausse, from Old French chauce, from Early Medieval Latin calcea, from Latin calceus (“shoe”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃos/

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Noun

chausse f (plural chausses)

1. (historical, in the plural) stockings; hose; cloth tube(s) that go up to the top of the thighs
2. straining bag, filter cloth (for wine)

Derived terms

• chaussette

Verb

chausse

1. inflection of chausser:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “chausse”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French chauce.

Noun

chausse f (plural chausses)

1. stocking (garment worn on the foot and leg)

Descendants

• French: chausse

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

chausse m (definite singular chausseen, indefinite plural chausseer, definite plural chausseene)

1. alternative spelling of chaussé

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

chausse m (definite singular chausseen, indefinite plural chaussear, definite plural chausseane)

1. alternative spelling of chaussé