Citations:quisse

English citations of quisse

rare alt form (from Old French) of cuisse

• 1840, Roxburghe Club, Ashmolean Museum, Illustrations of Ancient State and Chivalry: From Manuscripts Preserved in the Ashmolean Museum; with an Appendix, page 5:

  The eyelet - holes were used to fasten the armor to the doublet with arming - points . * Sabbatouns for his feet , greaves for the legs , and quisses for the thighs . See the Archæologia , XX . 499 . + It is uncertain what these […]

• 2003, Judith A. Lansdowne, Just in Time, Zebra Books, →ISBN:

  pair of quisses to protect his knees and thighs, and those are paldrons which fit over the arms and shoulders. [...] "It looks as though someone has taken an entire set of armor from the Great Hall and stored it out here."

• 2017 May 15, John France, Medieval Warfare 1000–1300, Routledge, →ISBN, page 192:

  An inventory of goods stolen from a chest in 1289 included not only two hauberks, but also iron greaves, two "pairs of plates", which were probably body armour, quisses, or thigh pieces, iron gauntlets and a plate gorget […]

• 2019 April 19, Lydia M. Hawke, Sins of the Warrior: A Supernatural Thriller, Michem Publishing, →ISBN:

  Mika'el added the greave to the pile of armor. “I don't understand. How could she possibly find what we cannot? ... Damn Lucifer, damn Samael, damn the Nephilim, damn the—Mika'el whirled and pitched the quisse he held at the door.