chausses

• His description, written in 1528, is interesting: "Ledict Barquin avoit environ 50 ans, et portoit ordinairement robbe de veloux, satin et damas, et choses (chausses) d'or, et estoit de noble lignée et moult grand clerc_, expert en science et subtil, mais néantmoins il faillit en son sens." —  The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2)
• Laced boots of soft black hide, drawn together on the outside from ankle to mid-calf with a golden cord, met the scarlet "chausses" which covered his thighs and outlined the figure of him who was the noblest youth and the most gallant in all the realm of Scotland Earl William wore no sword. —  The Black Douglas
• Such temporary impotence in a vigorous man, which results from an exceptional action of the brain and the nervous system, was called in old French Nouement des aiguilettes (i.e. point-tying, the points which fastened the haut-de-chausses or hose to the jerkin, and its modern equivalent would be to "button up the flap"). —  Arabian nights. English
• His doublet and haut-de-chausses were of wine-coloured velvet, richly laced, and he still affected the hanging sleeves of a fast-disappearing fashion. —  The Suitors of Yvonne: being a portion of the memoirs of the Sieur Gaston de Luynes
• They come home tres biens chausses, as a Frenchman would say, mighty well shod with professional knowledge. —  Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works

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