Associations to the word «Tasse»

Wiktionary

TASSE, noun. A piece of armor for the thighs, forming an appendage to the ancient corselet. Usually the tasse was a plate of iron swinging from the cuirass, but the skirts of sliding splints were also called by this name.

Dictionary definition

TASSE, noun. One of two pieces of armor plate hanging from the fauld to protect the upper thighs.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne