cuissette
/kwisɛt/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "The cuissettes are in several pieces and covered by cuissarts. The upper edges, in this instructive specimen of plate armour, of the pauldrons, are turned up so as in some degree to protect the neck, which evidently gave rise to […]"
- "[…] two pairs of cuissettes, and two testieres for horses."
Etymology
From Middle English quischete, Old French cuissete (modern French cuissette).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: quischete, cuissete