Definitions for chausses

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Spelling: [shohs]
IPA: /ʃoʊs/

Chausses is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 146 anagrams from letters in chausses (acehsssu).

Definitions for chausses

noun

  1. medieval armor of mail for the legs and feet.
  2. tights worn by men in medieval times over the legs and feet.

Origin of chausses

1350-1400; Middle English chauces Middle French, plural of chauce ≪ Latin calceus shoe, equivalent to calc- (stem of calx) heel + -eus -eous

Examples for chausses

To the chausses, whether of chain-mail or of banded-mail, are sometimes added Poleyns (or knee-pieces) of plate.

A curious variety of the chausson and chausses is found in the figure of a knight from Roy.

The surcoat and the chausses were essential features of the period.

The gambeson appearing below the chausses, but covering the chaussons of mail, forming an extra protection to the knee.

Hosen wiute vampez, stockings without feet; the chausses were usually footed.

Father John of Gatesden boldly throws aside alb and chasuble to don the knightly hauberk and chausses in good earnest.

When the mailed frock and chausses were joined, the union was called the haubergeon.

Knight in surcoat, mail hauberk and chausses, shield on left side.

In the first of these illustrations only the front of the leg is covered, and the chausses are laced at the back.

The knight has hauberk, chausses and coif of banded-mail, with poleyns, coutes and cervellire of plate.

Word Value for chausses
Scrable

13

Words with friends

14

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