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

“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

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

Reuss writes on this passage: "La cuisse n'est point agit�e, mais simplement prelev�e sur ce que les convives mangeront."

From Essays Upon Some Controverted Questions by Huxley, Thomas H.

Squires were running hither and thither, or aiding their masters to don armor, lacing helm to hauberk, tying the points of ailette, coude, and rondel; buckling cuisse and jambe to thigh and leg.

From The Outlaw of Torn by Burroughs, Edgar Rice