A piece of leg armor, typically made of metal plates or leather, that protected the front of the thigh; also called a cuisse.
From Old French cuisse, derived from Latin coxa meaning 'hip' or 'thigh.' The term evolved to describe the specific armor protecting that limb region.
Roman soldiers wore armor for the hip, and 1,500 years later medieval knights used nearly the same word for a similar piece—showing how military technology and its vocabulary stayed connected across centuries!
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