Chausses
Chausses ( Chausses offered flexible protection that was effective against slashing weapons. However, the wearer still felt the full force of crushing blows.
One of the first depictions of mail chausses is in the
Reinforcing plates for knees called
Chausses were also worn as a woollen legging with layers, as part of civilian dress, and as a gamboised (padded) garment for chain mail.
The old French word chausse, meaning stocking, survives only in modern French as the stem of the words chaussure (shoe) and chaussette (sock) and in the tongue-twister:
Les chausses sèches de l’archiduchesse
Sont elles sèches ou archisèches?
which today is often misunderstood as "les chaussettes de l’archiduchesse". In addition, among some Catholic monastic nuns, the special stocking/leggings worn were called chausses.
Citations
- ^ a b c d e Walker 2013, p. 74.
- ^ Walker 2013, p. 77.
- ^ Walker 2013, p. 79.
References
- Walker, Paul (2013). The History of Armour 1100-1700. Ramsbury: Crowood Press. ISBN 978-1847974525.
External links
- Arador Armour Library guide to constructing replica chausses
- A General History of Armor