Searchable Lemmata: chause (AF), chauso (L), chausses (MdE).
Alternate Forms: calches, causches, chauce, chaunces, chaustez, chaucon, chausonum.
1(n.)
Footwear;
hose of cloth (pair of).(circa 1175 - 1350)
1. [540] ... Chauces ot de samit, taillees a quarters ... [541] ... Un bliaut my parti, overé as eschekers ... [542] ... Un mantel sabelin dont le drap fu molt chers, ... [543] ... Esperons d’or [li] chauce li bon gomfanonners
Heroic, Historic, Poetic, Romance.
[AND Rom Chev ANTS (540-543) circa 1175/1200]
2. [72] ... un lyndrapier (var. lyndraper) de Lound[res] purchacea tenementz a luy et a sa femme ... [79] ... ij. garnisons (var. garnementz) pris de x. s. ... vj. peirs de soudlers ... iiij peirs de chaux (var. chaus)
Accounts.
[AND YBB Ed II (ii 72-79) 1307/1321]
Sex: Male, Female Ceremonial: No
Body Parts:
1b(n.)
Footwear;
greave; hose of mail (also cf. chauce de fer), mail leggings introduced for knights on horseback in the twelfth century.(circa 1170 - 1320)
3. [8526] ... En l’escu le colp descendi, Desqu’a la bocle le fendi ... [8541] ... E le nasel ... Li ad malmis e detrenché, E la ventaille ... [8695] ... La genoillere od tote la chalce Fist loinz voler en la place
Heroic, Poetic, Romance.
[AND Gui War (8526-8695) circa 1210]
Sex: Male, Female Use: Military Ceremonial: No
Body Parts: Foot, Leg.
1c(n.)
Footwear;
boot or shoe (also cf. chauce lacee = a laced shoe or boot).(circa 1200 - 1300)
Sex: Male, Female Ceremonial: No
Body Parts: Foot.
Definite, From Old French (chauçon; chauces). Cf. AF chauson. Ultimately from L calceus, calcius (shoe, half-boot).
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