Meanings
nouncuissard (plural cuissards)
plural cuissards · alternative cuissart
- An armor leg-guard or thigh-guard.
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 […]
1843, Magic, Magic and Mesmerism: An Episode of the Eighteenth Century, and Other Tales, page 212
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