Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A steel plate used in medieval armor for protecting the thigh.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In armor, a plate of steel hanging below the tassets, or forming the lowermost division of the tassets.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun In plate armor, a suspended plate in from of the thigh. See
Illust. oftasses .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun an
armor plate for the thigh;tasset
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun armor plate that protects the hip and thigh
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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CARROT AND ORANGE TUILE, BEETROOT JELLY: The tuille was a crisp of carrot flavor and orange essence on the end of a stick like a lollipop that was dusted with powdered orange zest.
Augieland: 2006
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CARROT AND ORANGE TUILE, BEETROOT JELLY: The tuille was a crisp of carrot flavor and orange essence on the end of a stick like a lollipop that was dusted with powdered orange zest.
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Dessert was a small wedge of Stinking Bishop cheese offset by pears poached in Riesling, ginger tuille and candied almonds.
A Stinky Job, but... 2012
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A torrent of pretty amuses-bouche (soy milk jelly with aubergine, chicken confit with a coconut tuille and so on) flowed our way before the magical mystery tour began.
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Finely chopped morels peppered a wavy tuille, made by using a template.
Chef Challenge III: Morels Brilynn 2008
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Finely chopped morels peppered a wavy tuille, made by using a template.
Archive 2008-12-01 Brilynn 2008
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The finished dish consisted of a piece of halibut topped with diced morels and bacon, rolled up in thinly sliced beet painted potatoes, beet powder and veg stock were combined to create the paint cooked in duck fat, served with a morel cream sauce and garnished with a morel tuille and morel jelly.
Archive 2008-12-01 Brilynn 2008
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The finished dish consisted of a piece of halibut topped with diced morels and bacon, rolled up in thinly sliced beet painted potatoes, beet powder and veg stock were combined to create the paint cooked in duck fat, served with a morel cream sauce and garnished with a morel tuille and morel jelly.
Chef Challenge III: Morels Brilynn 2008
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He never can bring himself to utter to his mountain land, from the depths of his heart, the melancholy words, “_Che til na tuille. _”
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I molded the tuille on an upside down mini muffin tin to make the cup, then put a rosette of the white chocolate whipped cream inside, loaded on the raspberries and topped it with some purloined candied almonds that another group made for a cake.
Reading, Writing, Cooking and Crafting: White chocolate pain-in-the-ass Kate 2007
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