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Definition of Tassets
1. tasset [n] - See also: tasset
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tassets
| tast tastable tastant tastants taste taste-maker taste-tester taste blindness taste bud |
Literary usage of Tassets
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Nature's teachings: human invention anticipated by nature by John George Wood (1877)
"The Shield.—Australian and West African Shields.—Fibre Armour.—Seal's-tooth Cuirass.
— Joints of Armour—"tassets."—Scale Armour in Art and Nature ..."
2. A Manual of Costume as Illustrated by Monumental Brasses by Herbert Druitt (1906)
"Its characteristic is the substitution of tassets for the skirt of taces and ...
The tassets, overlapping plates, taking the place of the taces, ..."
3. The Connoisseur by Town, Bonnell Thornton, George Colman (1904)
"The greater length of the tassets shows also the influence of a more ... and the
tassets of the right- hand figure are evidently constructed with a view to ..."
4. A Cyclopaedia of Costume Or Dictionary of Dress, Including Notices of by James Robinson Planché (1876)
"... of a sort of silk or stuff under the calendar to make a representation of
waves on it." TA CES or tassets. ... Taces with tassets attached. 1525. ..."
5. The Archaeological Journal by British Archaeological Association (1880)
"The tassets are like the breast-plate. On either thigh under the ... are two
supplementary tassets, constructed quite differently to the others. ..."
6. The Brasses of England by Herbert Walter Macklin (1907)
"Buckled to the rim of the cuirass, and hanging down over the trunk hose, are two
large tassets, the most characteristic feature of Elizabethan armour. ..."
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