cuissard
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English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]cuissard (plural cuissards)
- An armor leg-guard or thigh-guard.
- Coordinate term: cuisse
- 1843, Magic, Magic and Mesmerism: An Episode of the Eighteenth Century, and Other Tales, page 212:
- His looks anxiously followed the men as, upon given signals, they disappeared and returned with a fresh supply of cuissards, brassards, gorgets, knee and breast plates, groaning under the weight […]
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[edit]French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]cuissard m (plural cuissards)
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[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “cuissard”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.