tassets

He was clad almost entirely in black armor, apart from the hood upon his head: pauldrons extending over his chest and shoulder blades; gauntlets with long protective cuffs; and tassets to cover the vulnerable spot at the top of his cuisses, where his breastplate ended and his thigh armor began.

The Black Angel John Connolly 2005

Leather tassets suspended from the cuirass protected her thighs.

The Black Wing Kirchoff, Mary 1993

Once more there was only the dull ching of a glass-plated gauntlet striking the skirt of articulated tassets that armored his derriere.

The Golden Torc May, Julian, 1931- 1981

"Is it nonsense," I asked, managing to suppress what I felt, "is it nonsense when he says that the tassets and cuissards of the enamelled suit of armour commonly known as the 'Prince's Emblazoned' can be found among a mass of rusty theatrical properties, broken stoves and ragpicker's refuse in a garret in Pell Street?"

The King in Yellow 1899

At each clack the rooks left off pecking, and rose and went away on their leisurely wings, burnished like tassets of mail, afterwards wheeling back and regarding him warily, and descending to feed at a more respectful distance.

Jude the Obscure 1896

At each clack the rooks left off pecking, and rose and went away on their leisurely wings, burnished like tassets of mail, afterwards wheeling back and regarding him warily, and descending to feed at a more respectful distance.

Jude the Obscure 1894

It is Mr. Roe's opinion that the defensive armour on the quarter jacks dates from the first half of the fifteenth century, the plain oviform breastplates and basinets, as well as the continuation of the tassets round the hips, being very characteristic features of this period.

Vanishing England 1892

a great deal of calm, how I knew that the tassets and left cuissard were missing from the "Prince's Emblazoned."

The King in Yellow 1899

After I had heard enough, I gathered up a skirt of tassets -- "

Under the Rose Frederic Stewart Isham

"I have found the missing tassets and left cuissard of the 'Prince's Emblazoned,' in a vile old junk garret in

The King in Yellow 1899