chausses

/shohs/US // ʃoʊs //UK // (ʃəʊs) //

链条,链条式,链条型,链条式的

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
- : medieval armor of mail for the legs and feet.
- : tights worn by men in medieval times over the legs and feet.

In the first of these illustrations only the front of the leg is covered, and the chausses are laced at the back.
The gambeson appearing below the chausses, but covering the chaussons of mail, forming an extra protection to the knee.
The surcoat and the chausses were essential features of the period.
Chausses, which had been generally worn up to this period, began to give place to the separate breeches and hose.
Its removal was ordered, and in the same year chausses were built across the fen, one to Hoxton and another to Islington.