tasse noun. [tas] obsolete exc. Hist. LME.
[Perh. from Old French = purse from Middle High German tasche pouch, pocket from Old High German tasca rel. to Old Saxon dasga pouch, Middle Dutch tassche, tessche, prob. ult. from medieval Latin tasca: see TASK noun.]
In a suit of armour, one of a series of articulated overlapping splints or plates forming a protective skirt for the thighs and the lower part of the trunk. Usu. in pl.

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