The armour thus designated embraced a back- and breast-plate with espalier pauldrons to the elbows; three taces with pendent tassets of eight plates to the knees, fastened to the thighs by straps.
It was, as a rule, of better quality and finish than that served out to the footmen, the defences for the arms being complete, and lobster-tail tassets reaching to and covering the knees.
A back- and breast-plate with pendent tassets consisting of many plates formed with a leather coat and the helmet the sole protection.
A back- and breast-plate reached to the waist, to which were affixed two broad tassets meeting in front of six plates each (Plate XXIV.
The tassets of thirteen plates have the genouillières depending from them.
The tace of one plate has tassets of three plates depending (Fig.
I have found the missing tassets and left cuissard of the 'Prince's Emblazoned,' in a vile old junk garret in Pell Street.
His doublet and hose are torn, too, his breast-plate and tassets are riddled with arrow-shot; he bleeds profusely from the hand.
A deep peascod breast-plate and tassets richly arabesqued with dolphins on a blue ground, bears an engraved escutcheon with the figure of a porcupine, motto and date.
French and English monuments and manuscripts prove that this custom extended to Western Europe, the scolloped edge commonly showing over the tassetsfrom beneath the pourpoint.
The tassets are replaced by laminar cuissarts extending to the knee, below which the suit is not continued.
The overlapping tassets of most of the close-fitting skirts are made in this fashion, to which the term Almayne rivets, so frequently met with in inventories, is believed to apply.
The finely engraved and parcel-gilt breast-plate and tassets (Plate III.
When the tassets are made of more than one plate they are attached to each other by a most ingenious arrangement of straps and sliding rivets.
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.
They are joined in the same way as the laminated tassets by a riveted strap on the inner side, and by sliding rivets at the back, thus giving the arm freedom of movement forwards in the direction most needed, but less freedom towards the back.
The tassets are made in two or more pieces, connected with the strap and sliding rivet described in the preceding chapter.
Instead of taces and tassets the lower part of the body and the thighs are protected by steel Bases made in folds to imitate the skirts worn in civilian dress.
When the tassets were discarded about the end of the sixteenth century the cuisses were laminated in this way from waist to knee.
The lower plates of thetassets were detachable, those pieces being thus convertible into tassets of ordinary length.
The opening between the tassets is defended by the skirt of the hauberk, worn beneath the cuirass.
The evolution of leg-armour is well shown by the tassets extending, in several plates, below the knee where they overlap the demi-jambs.
By the middle of the seventeenth century the burgonet, cuirass, and tassets were well-nigh the only pieces of armour worn in the field.
The tassets are continued to the knee after the lobster-tail style then becoming fashionable.
Attached to the taces are tassets of three plates.
The breastplate and tassets of this armor are supposed to be in one piece, but for convenience in making it will be found best to make them separately and then glue them together after they are taken from the model.
The tassets are separate and attached to the front plate with straps and buckles, as shown in the sketch.
A breastplate and tassets of the sixteenth century are shown in Fig.
The chain mail seen between and behind the tassets is made by sewing small steel rings on a piece of cloth as shown in Fig.
The tassets were generally lined with leather, and the scalloped edges, forming an ornamental border, are plainly shown.
The foot soldiers of the period were armed with a breast and back plate, and with tassets reaching to the knees.
He wears a morion-shaped helmet with plumes, back and breast plates reaching to the waist, with two broad tassets fastened to the breast plate over padded knee breeches.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tassets" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
