Crossword-Solution: TASSETS 7 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

The tassets are separate and attached to the front plate with straps and buckles, as shown in the sketch.

The breastplate and tassets of this armor are supposed to be in one piece, but for convenience in making it will be found best to make them separately and then glue them together after they are taken from the model.

The chain mail seen between and behind the tassets is made by sewing small steel rings on a piece of cloth as shown in Fig.

The mounted cavalier--cuirassier or pistolier--might take the field, even as late as the Great Rebellion, armed at all points save the backs of the thighs and the legs below the knee; but a combed and brimmed cap, breast and back plate and tassets equipped the pikeman, and the musketeer would march without any metal on him save his headpiece, for it was soon found that heavily armed musketeers, after a long trudge through summer dust or winter mud, were readier to rest than to shoot.

Thus beneath the gorget, or camail, which covered the throat, was a sort of tippet formed of interlaced rings of steel, to hang down over the cuirass and afford additional protection; while, at the same time, from the tassets which terminated the cuirass, hung a broad edge of the same, to complete their junction with the cuissards, or thigh pieces.