Tasset vs Taslet - What's the difference?
tasset | taslet |
A tasse.
* 1786 , Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons , page 21:
As nouns the difference between tasset and taslet
is that tasset is a tasse while taslet is a piece of armor formerly worn to guard the thighs; a tasse.tasset
English
Noun
(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.