tasset

"Oh! they are quite gone out of use," replied the armourer; "and we now either make the tassets long, or add a guipon of mail, coming down to the thighs."

"Bring me my casque, boy, and my breastplates and tassets, also my best sword!"

A breastplate and tassets of the sixteenth century are shown in Fig.

Hawberk's hammer fell to the ground, but he picked it up and asked, with a great deal of calm, how I knew that the tassets and left cuissard were missing from the "Prince's Emblazoned."

His helmet was of iron, and his gloves Of iron, and his breastplate and his greaves And tassets were of iron, and his shield.