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• IPA: /ʃoʊˈsɔn/

名詞

chausson (plural chaussons)

1. (historical) A piece of armor for the leg and/or foot, chiefly in the form of chainmail covering the thigh above the knee (with the chausse covering the other half of the leg).
   • 1872, Octavius Morgan, Some Account of the Ancient Monuments in the Priory Church, Abergavenny, page 11:

     This leg armour consisted of three parts — the chaussons with the genouilleres attached, the greaves or leg armour, and the solleret or armed shoe. The knee piece formed part of the chausson, and was strapped on the leg  […]

   • 1897, The Archaeological Journal, page 285:

     There is also one pair of mail chaussons, or coverings for the legs. The sabatons were the armed coverings for the feet, which at this period were separate from the leg defences, of which in the early sixteenth century they so often  […]

   • 1907, British Museum, Department of British and Mediaeval Antiquities, Guide to the Mediaeval Room and to the Specimens of Mediaeval and Later Times in the Gold Ornament Room, page 61:

     As the period advanced, the legs were covered with mail chaussons above the knee, and below it with chausses, which were made to cover the feet.

   • 1925, Derbyshire Archaeological Society, Journal of the Derbyshire Archaeological and Natural History Society:

     […] were particularly vulnerable, the mail chaussons protecting the thighs were separated from the chausses which covered the lower part of the legs and these two were attached above and below to knee-caps, as described above.

2. (historical) A kind of slipper or sock.
   • 1897, Robert William Chambers, The Mystery of Choice, page 180:

     He leaned down and drew his sabots toward him from their place near the andirons, and slipped them over his chaussons; and as he straightened up, his eyes mechanically sought the mantel above, where in the dusk another pair of sabots stood, little, slender, delicate sabots, carved from red beech.

   • 1902, James William Fosdick, The Honor of the Braxtons: A Novel, page 169:

     She was on her feet in an instant with wide eyes and parted lips " Mon Dieu ! What agony ! […] her chaussons and stole across the lane in her stocking feet, always alert and watchful.

   • 2014, Gillian Tindall, Celestine: Voices From A French Village, Henry Holt and Company, →ISBN:

     Almost certainly, the dark blue linen smock of the region and, by this date, dark woollen trousers, all woven in the family. Clogs on his feet, inside them thick wool chaussons, half socks and half slipper, dyed brown with walnut juice.

   • 2018, Ingo Swann, The Great Apparitions of Mary: An Examination of Twenty-Two Supranormal Appearances, →ISBN, page 74:

     The deep blue garment was “ample,” with strongly marked folds, and fell from neck to feet without “any kind of girdle or compression at the waist.” The sleeves also were “ample” and fell over the hands. On the feet were chaussons ...

3. A French turnover (food).
   • 2020, Melissa Weller, Carolynn Carreno, A Good Bake: The Art and Science of Making Perfect Pastries, Cakes, Cookies, Pies, and Breads at Home: A Cookbook, Knopf, →ISBN, page 188:

     Roll out and form the chaussons
     • Lightly dust a large flat work surface with all-purpose flour. Remove the puff pastry from the refrigerator. Place one sheet of puff pastry on the work surface.

   • 2021, George H. Ellwanger, The Pleasures of the Table, Good Press:

     But the pâté did not reach its highest excellence until some time afterwards, when Doyen, a pastry-cook of great genius, already celebrated for his chaussons of veal and inimitable apple-puffs, substituted the blacker, larger, and more fragrant truffle […]