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armor for the thigh, because medieval knights knew where the next sword was headed
means A piece of plate armor designed to protect the thigh, worn as part of a knight's leg defenses.
from From Old French cuisse, meaning "thigh," which descends from Latin coxa, "hip" — the same root that gives us the anatomical "coxa" and is a cousin of words for hip across the Romance languages. Knights simply named the armor after the body part it guarded.
- location
- covers the thigh from hip to knee
- french root
- the word simply means thigh in French
- materials
- evolved from padded cloth to articulated plate steel
- pairing
- worked with poleyns guarding the knee below
- culinary cousin
- cuisse de poulet means chicken thigh on menus
for instance
cuisse of henry viii — thigh armor piece from the royal armouries, tower of london, crafted circa 1544
cuisse at metropolitan museum — italian fluted steel thigh protection, armor suit attributed to filippo negroli, 1500s