Tasse

noun

1. One of a series of jointed overlapping metal splints hanging from a corselet, used as armor for the lower trunk and thighs.
2. See tass, tass, tass.
3. A piece of armor for the thighs, forming an appendage to the ancient corselet.
4. 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.
5. one of two pieces of armor plate hanging from the fauld to protect the upper thighs