Definitions
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- noun Defensive armor for the thighs.
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- noun
defensive armour for thethighs
Etymologies
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French cuisse ("thigh"); compare French cuissard, Old French cuissot ("armour for the thigh, cuish")
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Examples
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But when he put off his armor he found the cuish from his right thigh filled with clots of blood from an angry wound in his side.
Good Stories for Holidays Frances Jenkins Olcott 1917
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But when he put off his armor he found the cuish from his right thigh filled with clots of blood from an angry wound in his side.
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"Helm, cuish, and breastplate streamed with gore."
The Romance of Names Ernest Weekley 1909
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