Meaning & use
Tasset
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A piece of armor consisting of overlapping metal plates that hung from a breastplate to protect the upper thighs.
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The knight's suit of armor included jointed tassets that allowed him to walk freely.
Museum visitors admired the intricately etched tassets on the 16th-century armor.
A note on using this word
Tassets were a common feature of European plate armor from the 15th to 17th centuries.
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