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noun one of two pieces of armor plate hanging from the fauld to protect the upper thighs
originEither inherited from Middle English *tassette, from Old French tassette, or borrowed in the 1800s from French tassette, see tasse for more. Equivalent to tasse + -et.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0