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▪ I. tasse, n.1 Obs. exc. Hist.|tæs|
Only in pl. tasses |ˈtæsɪz|, in 6 taisses, 6–7 tases, taces, 7 taishes.
[In form the same word as OF. tasse purse, holster; in sense = F. tassette, obs. tassete, a small pocket or pouch, a steel plate intended to guard the thigh, dim. of tasse.
The connexion of sense is not clear; but cf. It. scarsella a pocket; scarselloni bases or tasses for a horseman (Florio 1611); Sp. escarcela, ‘escarcelle, gibier, bourse; aussi la tassette’ (Oudin 1660); escarcela, a satchel, pouch, or bag; the armour from the waist to the thighs (Stevens 1706).]
pl. A series of articulated splints or plates depending from the corslet, placed so that each slightly overlapped the one below it, forming a sort of kilt of armour to protect the thighs and the lower part of the trunk.
a1548Hall Chron., Hen. IV 12 One company had..the tasses, the lamboys, the backpece, the tapull and the border of the curace all gylte. 1579–80North Plutarch (1676) 212 Their legs were armed with Greaves, and their thighs with Tases. 1581Styward Mart. Discipl. ii. 165 To haue good curates for their bodies, taces for their thighes. 1596Warner Alb. Eng. xii. lxix. (1612) 291 The Taishes, Cushies, and the Graues, staffe, Pensell, baises. 1598Barret Theor. Warres Gloss. 253 Taisses, a French word, and is the arming of the thighes, annexed vnto the forepart of the Corslet. 1688R. Holme Armoury iii. xix. (Roxb.) 166/1 Armour for the thighes, of the French called Cuissets, and Taces or Tasses, because they are tached or tacked on with straps of leather to the corslett. 1869Boutell Arms & Arm. x. (1874) 203 Below the waist, and there connected with the bottom of the breastplate, the body was protected by a series of narrow overlapping plates..denominated taces. 1888F. Cowper Capt. of Wight (1889) 337 The taces of his armour had saved his thigh.
▪ II. † tasse, n.2 Obs. rare—1.
app. the same as tassel n.1: perh. an erroneous form.
1570Levins Manip. 34/33 Y⊇ Tasse of a purse, appendix.
▪ III. † tasse, v. Obs. rare—1.
[a. OF. tasser (12th c. in Godef. Compl.), going with tas, tasse heap, tass1.]
trans. To heap, pile.
a1400Octouian 695, I woll vpon thy body tasse [rimes masse, passe] Well many a dent.
▪ IV. tasse
variant of tass2, a cup. |