How To Use Cuisse In A Sentence
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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.
The Outlaw of Torn
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He hastily straightened his gleaming bronze cuirass and cuisse, settled his sword sheath and gauntlets more comfortably upon his belt, and entered the audience hall.
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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.
War and Peace
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Pis si vous voulez j'ai aussi une scarif 'sur la cuisse ...
Pinku-tk Diary Entry
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Hinc satis propè habetur et capella medio montis, vbi Christus sedens prædicauit octo beatitudines, vbi et creditur docuisse discipulos orationem Dominicam, scilicet, Pater noster, &c. Ab eo quoque loco non distat multum Ecclesia beatæ Maaiæ Aegyptiacæ, in qua et eius tumba videtur: et haud procul inde est vicus
The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville
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He nodded and looked me over as he peeled off the body armor, dropping the chest plate, the cuisse and shynbald armor of the legs.
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Mes jambes sont gonflées, mes pieds sont rouge plein d'ampoules, j'ai des bleu partout les cuisse les poignet les bras ...
Pinku-tk Diary Entry
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Courtecuisse, to avoid having to walk from the pavilion to the pheasantry, had turned the large hall of the central building into a stable, -- a hall with panelled ceiling, and in the centre of each panel the arms of all the various possessors of Les Aigues!
Sons of the Soil
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Mon-Sat noon-3pm & 7pm-12: 30am Tel: 01 40 22 09 09 www. lejgo.com Clotilde Dusoulier Le Petit Pascal's cuisse de canard, or duck thigh.
In Paris, Mastering the Art of
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I think we have finally left medieval armor behind us, after talking about cuisses and culets and jambeaus.
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The list above is missing cuisses (thigh armour) 'Ventail' ... there is an aventail, but something is telling me that isn't quite right ....
Roland Diary Entry
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Thus, they usually spend a day removing all the bulky portions of their armor, retaining only critical greaves, cuisses, and jambeau.
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Ben non moi elle est bien cachée sur ma cuisse droite et pis c tout!!
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Lifting out a cuisse by its leather strap, Tika stood up and, turning around, hurled the polished metal straight at Cara - mon.
Time of the Twins
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'So,' India raised her voice, teeth gleaming over a herb-dusted cuisse, 'was Betty Bracken in tears?'
Come To Grief
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There were loud regrets that a cuisse de chevreuil had not been marinée; in fact, an infect odour of the
The Land of Midian
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The thighs, which had been protected beneath the mail hauberk by padded, or gambossed, cuisses in the 13th century, received plate cuisses early in the next century.
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Moreover, as any damage done to the horse will involve his rider in extreme peril, the horse also should be clad in armour — frontlet, breastplate, and thigh-pieces; 165 which latter may at the same time serve as cuisses for the mounted man.
On Horsemanship
