Noun: tasse
| Singular | tasse |
| Plural | tasses |
Sample Sentences
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This included the head-piece and gorgett, the back and breast, with skirts of iron called tasses or tassets covering the thighs, as may be seen in the figures, representing the exercise of the pike, published anno 1622, by the title of the Military Art of Training; the same kind of armour was worn by the harquebusiers. [1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page 21:]
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The tasse, meant only to cover the hips, was so long that its edges scraped against the floor. [2022, Tim Akers, Valhellions, Baen Books, →ISBN:]
Nouns inflected like tasse
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English tasse (“armor plate protecting the hip”), derived from Old French tasse, tasche (“purse; pouch”), derived from Frankish *taskā (“pouch”), derived from Proto-Germanic *taskǭ. Cognate with Old High German tasca (“pouch”), German Tasche (“pocket; pouch; bag”), Dutch tas (“bag”). See: Middle English Nouns '
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tasse', German Nouns '
Tasche', Dutch Nouns '
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Verbs referencing "tasse"
Dutch Nouns
tas, German Nouns
Tasche.