cuisse

American  

[kwis] / kwɪs /

Also cuish

noun

Armor.

1. a piece of armor or padding for protecting the thigh.

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cuisse British  

/ kwɪʃ, kwɪs /

noun

1. a piece of armour for the thigh

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Etymology

Origin of cuisse

1275–1325; earlier also cush, plural cushies (the plural cush ( i ) e-s misanalyzed as cush- ( i ) es ), Middle English quissheu, kusheu, plural quyssewes, cusschewis < Old French quisseuz, cuisseus, plural of cuissel, equivalent to cuisse thigh (< Latin coxa hipbone) + -el noun suffix

Example Sentences

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cuisse

“Enough is enough,” the late Josh Ozersky wrote in one cri de cuisse in 2011.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 19, 2026

Soul music is playing in the background as the students take orders for cuisse de canard and paupiettes de mérou.

From The Guardian ● Nov. 26, 2019

"The first names man ever had for his own dwelling, with several other etymologies, such as barrack, good-by, property, coin, copper, maistre, castor, out-cast, caserne, quoit, cat, quiet, discus, Apollo, tranquil, keel, cuisse, &c."

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 360, October 1845 by Various

But where, in the name of Heaven, where are these sortis de la cuisse de Jupiter, Mr. Froude?

From West Indian Fables by James Anthony Froude Explained by J. J. Thomas by Thomas, J. J. (John Jacob)

He was dressed in a dark-green dress coat, knee breeches of the color of cuisse de nymphe effrayee, as he called it, shoes, and silk stockings.

From War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf