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cuisse, cuish|kwɪs, kwɪʃ|
Forms: pl. 4 quysseaux, -ewes, 5 cusseis, cussues, qwysshewes, 5–7 cushies, 7 cushes, 6–9 cuisses, 8–9 cuishes; sing. 5 cusshewe, cusché, 7 cush, 9 cuish.
[In 14th c. quyssewes, cuissues, a. OF. cuisseaux, cuisiaux, pl. of cuissel = It. cosciale, L. coxāle, f. L. coxa hip, It. coscia, F. cuisse thigh. In Eng. the -ewes, -ues of the plural being reduced to -ies, and at length to -es, the latter has been confounded with the plural ending in fish-es, etc., and a singular cuish, cuisse formed. The etymological sing. would be quissel, or quissew.]
pl. Armour for protecting the front part of the thighs; in sing. a thigh-piece.
[1314Sir R. de Clifford in Hist. Lett. & Pap. North Reg. (Rolls 1873) 227 Vij. pair de trappes..ix. pair de quisseus.] c1330R. Brunne Chron. Wace (Rolls) 10027 Arthur..was armed fynly wel Wyþ..Doublet & quysseaux. c1340Gaw. & Gr. Knt. 578 Queme quyssewes.. coyntlych closed His thik þrawen þyȝez. 1423Test. Ebor. (Surtees) III. 73 Pro uno pare de qwysshewes de mayle, pro defensione crurium. c1425Wyntoun Cron. viii. xxxii. 46 Hys Cusche Laynere brak in twa. 1590Sir J. Smyth Disc. Weapons 3 If he had that day worne his cuisses, the bullet had not broken his thigh bone. 1596Shakes. 1 Hen. IV, iv. i. 105, I saw young Harry with his Beuer on, His Cushes on his thighes. 1602Warner Alb. Eng. xii. lxix. (1612) 291 The Taishes, Cushies, and the Graues. 1622F. Markham Bk. War iv. viii. 151 They shocke close together, and as it were ioyne Cush to Cush. 1697Dryden Virgil Ded., How came the cuisses to be worse tempered than the rest of his armour. 1718Pope Iliad iii. 411 The purple cuishes clasp his thighs around. 1814Scott Ld. of Isles vi. xxxiii, Helm, cuish, and breastplate stream'd with gore. 1881Palgrave Vis. Eng. 136 Sidney struck onward, his cuisses thrown off.
Hence † cuishard [F. cuissard], cuisset, cuissot [F. 13th c.], in same sense. Cf. also cussan.
1598Barret Theor. Warres Gloss. 250 Cuisset, is the armings of a horseman, for his thigh vnto the knees. 1678tr. Gaya's Arms of War 44 Cuissots or Thigh-pieces. 1632J. Hayward tr. Biondi's Eromena 145 He bore him a thrust under the vauntplate, between the two cuyshard pieces. 1830E. Hawkins Anglo-Fr. Coinage 110 Part of his cuissarts appears. |