As early as the year 1364 we find that at the Battle of Auray Sir Hugh Calverley ordered his men to take off their cuisses that they might move more rapidly.
When the tassets were discarded about the end of the sixteenth century the cuisses were laminated in this way from waist to knee.
The tassets were prolonged to the knee or--to describe this portion of the armour in a different way--the cuisses themselves were formed of riveted lames and the tassets discarded.
The cuisses have a fringe of mail at the knee, and the houghs are defended by decorated shields or rondels.
The cuisses are similarly composed of plates set horizontally and decorated vertically.
The cuisses are high and laminated as in former examples.
As in the preceding suits of the same epoch, the genouillères can hardly be considered as separate pieces, the laminated cuisses being continued down to the jambs (plate 33).
The cuisses are laminated, and reach to about the middle of the thigh.
When the cavalry disused the lance, the cuisses were no longer worn to guard against its thrust, and the stout leathern or buff coat hung down from beneath the body armour to the knees, and supplied the place of the discarded steel.
Armour made in Germany, middle of XVI century, probably designed by Diego de Arroyo; cuisses laminated.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cuisses" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
