Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One of a series of jointed overlapping metal splints hanging from a corselet, used as armor for the lower trunk and thighs.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
tass , tass, tass.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A piece of armor for the thighs, forming an appendage to the ancient corselet.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A piece of
armor for thethighs , forming anappendage to the ancientcorselet . Usually the tasse was a plate of ironswinging from thecuirass , but theskirts of slidingsplints were also called by this name.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun one of two pieces of armor plate hanging from the fauld to protect the upper thighs
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Entasser ... yes, that makes more sense, I thought, noticing how "tasse" (cup) finds its way into the word.
French Word-A-Day: 2008
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Entasser ... yes, that makes more sense, I thought, noticing how "tasse" (cup) finds its way into the word.
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Entasser ... yes, that makes more sense, I thought, noticing how "tasse" (cup) finds its way into the word.
French Word-A-Day: 2008
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Entasser... yes, that makes more sense, I thought, noticing how "tasse" cup finds its way into the word.
French Word-A-Day: 2008
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It appeared in the _Museum_, 1790. tassie = _a cup_; _Fr. _ 'tasse'
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A tasse de café is a cup of coffee (i.e., a cup containing coffee).
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While a "tasse à café" is the coffee cup itself (with nothing in it).
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Je vous souhaite un tres joyeux anniversaire ... que vous soyez heureux toujours and que Kristin vous apportiez une tasse de cafe tous les matins!
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Once I have micro-waved the milk and filled each tasse* with coffee, it is time to remember whose is whose, that is, which cup of coffee is his (more milk, less hot) and which is mine
French Word-A-Day: 2008
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No, no ... it's all about the demi-tasse of piping hot, pitch black espresso for him.
Archive 2008-12-01 Sarah 2008
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