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How to use chausses in a sentence

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These full mail chausses are heavy items, and the nature of mail means that they need a lot of support.
The braies were commonly made in linen while the chausses were normally done in wool.
While braies are always depicted as being white, chausses came in a variety of colors.
By the eleventh century a few of the wealthier warriors are shown with mail chausses or leggings although these too are quite rare.
Notice also that the cords which tie the chausses to the braies originate at the top of the chausse and two of them go up to the casing and are tied there.
Doctoral thesis, Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chausses, Marne-la-Vallee, France.
Examples from Classical Literature
A curious variety of the chausson and chausses is found in the figure of a knight from Roy.
The knight has hauberk, chausses and coif of banded-mail, with poleyns, coutes and cervellire of plate.
When the mailed frock and chausses were joined, the union was called the haubergeon.
Father John of Gatesden boldly throws aside alb and chasuble to don the knightly hauberk and chausses in good earnest.
The gambeson appearing below the chausses, but covering the chaussons of mail, forming an extra protection to the knee.
In the first of these illustrations only the front of the leg is covered, and the chausses are laced at the back.
To the chausses, whether of chain-mail or of banded-mail, are sometimes added Poleyns of plate.
Knight in surcoat, mail hauberk and chausses, shield on left side.
The surcoat and the chausses were essential features of the period.
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