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

chaunging
chaunk
chaunt
chaunted
chaunter
chaunterie
chaunteries
chaunters
chaunting
chauntry
chaunts
chaur
chaurasia
chaurasias
chausse
chausses (current term)
chaussure
chaussures
chaussée
chautauqua
chautauquas
chauvin
chauvinism
chauvinisms
chauvinist
chauvinistic
chauvinistically
chauvinists
chauvins
chav

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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