Citations:cuisson

English citations of cuisson

  • 1926, The Yorkshire Archaeological Journal:
    About 1255 the mail pants began to be split into two parts, cuissons enclosing the hips and thighs, cuisses enclosing the legs and feet, with cuir-bouilli knee-cops intervening.
  • 2013, Jocelyn Wogan-Browne, Language and Culture in Medieval Britain: The French of England, C.1100-c.1500, Boydell & Brewer Ltd (→ISBN), page 251:
    Nicole Bozon's beautiful poem Comment le fiz Deu fu armé shows the Virgin entering Christ's chamber to arm him in thigh plates and leg armour – cuissons and greaves of flesh, nerves, sinews.
  • 1903, William Hand Browne, The Taill of Rauf Coilyear: A Scottish Metrical Romance of the Fifteenth Century, page 119:
    cussanis. Armour for the thighs. OF. cuissot. The Oxf. Dict. derives from cuisson; but Littré says that cuissau and cuissot are the only forms found in the old texts. Godefroy gives quesson. It occurs as quyssewes in G. 578.