cuissette/kwisɛt/EtymologyFrom Middle English quischete, Old French cuissete (modern French cuissette).cuissette means A small or light cuisse. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.nounA small or light cuisse.“The cuissettes are in several pieces and covered by cuissarts. The upper edges, in this instructive specimen of plate armour, of the pauldrons, are turned up so as in some degree to protect the neck, which evidently gave rise to […]”