chausses

(ʃəʊs)

(Arms & Armour (excluding Firearms)) (functioning as singular) a tight-fitting medieval garment covering the feet and legs, usually made of chain mail

[C15: from Old French chauces, plural of chauce leg-covering, from Medieval Latin calcea, from Latin calceus shoe, from calx heel]

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References in periodicals archive

Rateaux a la main, chausses de bottes, les enfants apprennent a observer la nature, a connaEtre les saisons et leur impact sur la nature.

Ateliers educatifs pour les enfants

Ollivier (emeritus civil engineering, INSA Toulouse), Jean-Michel Torrenti (materials, Ecole nationale des ponts et chausses, Paris), and Myriam CarcassA[c]s (U.

Physical properties of concrete and concrete constituents

Pratt, definitively, corrects our misimpression that the two fought ankle-deep in blood; Chaucer here describes only the mundane effect of surface wounds, with blood running down 'their thighs into their chausses and grevieres' (p.

Chaucer and War

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