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cuisse (s.xii1/3)
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cuisse (s.xii1/3)

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qesse;  qisse;  quese;  quice,  quis,  quisce,  quische,  quise,  quisse,  quiz,  quize,  quyce,  quysce,  quyse,  quysse  (coisse  Lapid 60.776 );
pl. quisez,  quisis,  quisz  (esquissez  Man lang ANTS 4.12)  
  FEW:  coxa 2/ii,1260b Gdf: ∅ GdfC:  cuisse 2 9,263c TL: ∅ DEAF:  cuisse 1  DMF:  cuisse  TLF:  cuisse  OED:  cuisse n.  MED:  quisse n.  DMLBS:  coxa 1 510b / cuissa 528b

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1anat.upper leg, thigh (from hip to knee): 
( s.xii1/3; MS: s.xiii2 )  Sur la femme la (=a stone) deit lier, A sa quisse e sur son iller  Lapid 231.820
( 1171-74; MS: c.1200 )  La u parlout al rei saint Thomas a cheval, De quisse en quisse sist, sovent changot estal, L'une quisse en la sele e l'autre contreval; Car les braies de haire li firent si grant mal  Becket1 53
( MS: s.xiii )  coxa: (A) quise  TLL ii 118.63
( c.1290; MS: s.xv1 )  Cuisses (M.E.  thees), naches (M.E. buttockes)  bibb MS (O) 332rb
( MS: s.xiii2 )  dic femur ‘quisse de humme’ esse viri, femen ‘quisse de femme’ dic mulieris  TLL ii 24.1795
( MS: s.xiiiex )  crus: (C) la quise (var. (D: s.xiii/xiv) la quisce; (L: s.xiii) la quisse)  TLL ii 125.2
( MS: c.1325 )  Item a dolour dé quisz  Receptaria 134.518
( s.xiv2; MS: s.xiv2 )  si bubetes se aperen[t] en la senestre quische si grant cum gemme blanche [...]  A-N Med ii 255
( 1396; MS: c.1400 )  les hanches – vel nages – les queses (var. (O: s.xv1) cuisses), […]  Man lang1 46
♦orn.anat.upper leg (of a bird): 
( 1121-35; MS: s.xii3/3 )  A l’oisel ad un os Enz en la quisse, gros  Best ants 2168
2costumebreeches, undergarment that covers the upper legs: 
( MS: s.xiii ) femoralia: (L) quisses (var. (D: s.xiii/xiv) quisers )  TLL ii 136.49
♦armourmil.cuisse, armour for protecting the upper leg or thigh: 
( MS: s.xivin )  Ky vousit par mal sa chaumbre visiter, De quisez e mustilers avereit le mesteer [...] Kar il eert assayli de kenet (=small dog) e leverer  Rel Ant i 155
frut de sa (etc.) cuisse
Bibl.theol.fruit of one’s loins, offspring: 
( s.xiv1; MS: c.1361 )  il fust prophete, et sczeust qe [...] del fruit de sa quisse (Latin: de fructu lumbi eius) seer sur soun see  Actes (A) 362c
par la cuisse de Deu
curse‘by the hip of God’: 
( 1305 )  E si vous la (=the addressee’s wife) sueffrez plus tost travailler, par la quisse Dé vous le comperez  Priv Lett Ed I 85

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See also:

cuissel1  cuissel2  cuissette  cuissier  cuisson  cuissot  cussin 
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