Where does cuisser come from?

It is traced to Middle English.

cuisser

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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"They have girded on his shirt of mail, his cuissers well they've clasp'd, And they've harr'd the helm on his visage pale, and his hand the lance hath grasp'd And they have caught the old grey steed, the borse of Trebizond, […]"
"Elizabeth's notables outside of court wore rapiers with cup-hilts and cuissers or overlapping plates of armour on the thigh."

cuissers (plural)

cuisse

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