Fauld vs Tasset - What's the difference?
fauld | tasset |
a piece of armor worn below a breastplate to protect the waist and hips.
The arch over the dam of a blast furnace; the tymp arch.
(Webster 1913)
A tasse.
* 1786 , Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons , page 21:
As nouns the difference between fauld and tasset
is that fauld is a piece of armor worn below a breastplate to protect the waist and hips while tasset is a tasse.fauld
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(en noun)tasset
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(en noun)- This included the head-piece and gorgett, the back and breast, with skirts of iron called tasses or tassets covering the thighs, as may be seen in the figures, representing the exercise of the pike, published anno 1622, by the title of the Military Art of Training; the same kind of armour was worn by the harquebusiers.