Associations to the word «Tasse»
Wiktionary
TASSE, noun. A piece of armor for the thighs, forming an appendage to the ancient corselet. Usually the tasse was a plate of iron swinging from the cuirass, but the skirts of sliding splints were also called by this name.
Dictionary definition
TASSE, noun. One of two pieces of armor plate hanging from the fauld to protect the upper thighs.
Wise words
In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike
fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the
new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.