First of all there is the suit of armour on the knight in the foreground, the hooded hauberk and chausses of mail and genouillieres, the chapeau de fer, or war helm, and the surcoat, and the shield.
Very frequently we find a surcoat orchausses represented, as if rings or little discs of metal were sewn flat all over the garment.
It is easy to see that the pressure of the chausses of mail upon the knee in riding would be constant and considerable, and a much more serious inconvenience than the pressure upon the elbow in the usual attitude of the arm.
Goliath, in which the Philistine has a hauberk of chain mail, and chausses of jazerant work, like the knight in the last woodcut.
The chaussesare of chain mail, and continuous with the covering for the feet.
The hauberk is shown continuous with the coif; the legs are protected by chausses of some pliable material, thickly covered with protective studs.
The chaussesare prolonged to cover the feet, upon which are strapped the usual short pryck spur.
Two soldiers also in the same group have chausses of mail of the same description, and the coif is continuous with the body portions of the hauberk.
The visor upon the salade is apparently fixed, while the legs are encased in mail chausses covered with demi-cuissarts and jambarts.
The mailchausses are continued like the sleeves of the hauberk, in order to protect the feet as well as the legs.
Whether this pourpoint supplemented the chausses of banded mail or was worn in their place is a moot point.
The legs are enclosed in soft leather chausses protected by metal studs, upon which is a cross-gartering of leather thongs.
The thighs are defended by chaussons or haut-de-chausses of mail, apparently with rings only upon the parts exposed.
The chausses are of banded ring mail protected in front by jambarts and genouillières, while the sollerets are of mixed mail and plate.
The third figure has simple chausses of banded mail with no reinforcement: long swords with characteristic pommels are worn, and the whole group is a most striking example of the lack of uniformity at the period.
Goliath wearing chausses consisting of a thin material which creases near the calf, and only a single row of the protective studs down the shin.
The genouillières are very elaborate, and probably of cuir-bouilli; above them and beneath the skirt of the hauberk are seen the padded and quilted trews covering the chausses from the knee upwards.
The chausses are very similar in appearance to trunk hose, and fit tightly to the limbs; while the beard is forked after the fashion of the period.
His short, green jacket has wide sleeves edged with ermine, and his chausses are red.
Red chausses are worn on the legs, with a cross-gartering of gold from the toes upwards.
The gown is abbreviated to the hips; the sleeves are wide, and the chausses are tight-fitting to the limbs; while the shoes have long pointed toes.
In time, the chausses were cut into two pieces at the knees; the lower part, corresponding with the modern stocking, protected the leg, and the upper portion protected the thigh.
In this reign the chausses were made like trunk hose, and fitted tightly to the limbs.
But they are described as being worn on the chausses or stockings of mail, and may not impossibly have been greaves or defences of plate after the Roman pattern.
It seems clear that the designer did not mean to represent chain-mail in this way, for when the body of the garment is obviously of mail he has taken care to distinguish a different pattern on the chausses or leg armour.
The greaves are ornamented with floral devices and écussons, and are strapped on to chausses of mail.
In the first of these illustrations only the front of the leg is covered, and the chausses are laced at the back.
Towards the end of the thirteenth century the chaussons and chausses were made in one stocking-like form covering the foot; this is shown on Plate I, 8, 12.
The manner of a death which sealed the fate of England must have made a deep impression on the victors, and thenceforth mail chausses became an essential part of the knight's equipment.
The effigy of Robert of Normandy, of which there is a cast in the National Portrait Gallery, shows a thick overall under the chausses of mail, and drawn over the mail chaussons at the knee (Fig.
The quilted gambeson appearing below the chausses and drawn over the chaussons, with the additional protection for the knee-cap of an octagonal plate.
The chaussesand chaussons overlapping, forming a double thickness of mail, with the addition of a quatrefoil plate over the knee-cap.
Towards the close of the thirteenth century the Chausses are most commonly accompanied with a Chausson of leather or quilted-work, the purpose of which was probably to obviate the inconvenience of the long chausses of metal in riding.
The knight has hauberk, chausses and coif of banded-mail, with poleyns, coutes and cervellière of plate.
It is often, however, difficult to determine whether the poleyns are fixed to the chausses or the chausson, from the upper edge of them being covered by the hauberk.
The chain-mail chaussesof the knight are drawn together behind the leg and under the foot by lacing.
A curious variety of the chausson and chausses is found in the figure of a knight from Roy.
Where the chausses are not of a defensive construction, the warrior has commonly short boots, similar to those seen on the figure of David in the foregoing woodcut.
The mounted figure is distinguished by havingchausses also of banded-mail.
The armour of the legs consists of a chausson of chain-mail, and chausses lacing behind, which appear to be formed of studs rivetted on cloth or leather.
The knight is armed in hauberk, chausses and hood of chain-mail; with a chausson, of which the knee-pieces seem to be of iron plate.
The chausses are also of chain-mail, and there is an appearance of a chausson at the knee, but the prominence of the seal at this part has caused so much obliteration, that the existence of this garment may be doubted.
Father John of Gatesden boldly throws aside alb and chasuble to don the knightly hauberk and chausses in good earnest.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "chausses" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
