Citations:cuisson


 * 1926, The Yorkshire Archaeological Journal:
 * About 1255 the mail pants began to be split into two parts, cuissons enclosing the hips and thighs, cuisses enclosing the legs and feet, with cuir-bouilli knee-cops intervening.
 * 2013, Jocelyn Wogan-Browne, Language and Culture in Medieval Britain: The French of England, C.1100-c.1500, Boydell & Brewer Ltd (ISBN 9781903153475), page 251:
 * Nicole Bozon&#39;s beautiful poem Comment le fiz Deu fu armé shows the Virgin entering Christ&#39;s chamber to arm him in thigh plates and leg armour – cuissons and greaves of flesh, nerves, sinews.