different between corselet vs tasse

English

Alternative forms

• corcelet
• corselette
• corslet

Etymology

From French corselet, from cors, an archaic spelling of corps (“body”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?k??sl?t/

Noun

corselet (plural corselets)

1. Armor for the body, as, the body breastplate and backpiece taken together.
2. The entire suit of the day, including breastplate and backpiece, tasset and headpiece.
   • 1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page 21:

     Strictly speaking, the word corcelet meant only that part which covered the body, but was generally used to express the whole suit, under the terms of a corselet furnished, or complete.

3. A tight-fitting item of clothing which covers the body and not the limbs.
4. A type of women's underwear, combining a bra and a girdle in one garment; a corselette.
5. (zoology) The thorax of an insect.
   • 1897, Henry James, What Maisie Knew:

     With the added suggestion of her goggles it reminded her pupil of the polished shell or corslet of a horrid beetle.

Translations

Anagrams

• Electors, corelets, electors, electros, selector

French

Etymology

Diminutive form of Old French cors.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??.s?.l?/

Noun

corselet m (plural corselets)

1. corselet (garment)
2. (zoology) corselet, thorax

Further reading

• “corselet” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Alternative forms

• tace
• tasset

Etymology

From Middle English tasse, tache, from Old French tasse, tasche (“purse; pouch”), from Frankish *taska (“pouch”), from Proto-Germanic *task?, cognate with Old High German tasca (“pouch”), German Tasche (“pocket; pouch; bag”).

Noun

tasse (plural tasses)

1. A piece of armor for the thighs, forming an appendage to the ancient corselet. Usually the tasse was a plate of iron swinging from the cuirass, but the skirts of sliding splints were also called by this name.
   • 1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page 21:

     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.

Anagrams

• ASSET, SEATs, SESTA, Seats, TASes, TESSA, Tessa, asset, easts, sates, satés, seats, setas, tases

French

Etymology

From Arabic ????? (??s) (a shortening of ?????? (?ast)), from Middle Persian tšt' (tašt), ultimately from the past participle of the Proto-Iranian verb *taš- (“to make, construct; to cut”), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *t???šti, from Proto-Indo-European *t?t?-ti ~ *tét?-n?ti, from *tet?- (“to create”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?s/

Noun

tasse f (plural tasses)

1. cup
2. cupful

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Luxembourgish: Taass
• ? Vietnamese: tách

See also

• verre

Further reading

• “tasse” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• stase

Italian

Pronunciation

Noun

tasse f

1. plural of tassa

Anagrams

• asset, sesta, stesa, tessa

Swedish

Etymology

A noa-name, a euphemistic replacement of the word ulv or varg (which is in itself originally a noa-word).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²tas?/
• Rhymes: -²as?

Noun

tasse c

1. (dialectal, euphemistic) wolf

Declension

Synonyms

• gråben
• ulv
• varg

Derived terms

• tassemark

References

• tasse in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Anagrams

• asets, asset, etsas