Chausses

This article is about the type of armour. "Chausse" is also an unrelated technical term in heraldry.Chausses ( as formerly naturalized, now more often as modern French ) are armour for the legs, usually made from chainmail. They could extend to the knee or cover the entire leg. Chausses were the standard type of metal leg armour during most of the European Middle Ages. Chausses offered flexible protection that was effective against slashing weapons. However, the wearer felt the full force of crushing blows.
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v. put on, provide with shoes; fit, fit with tires

adj. shod

(n. pl.)
The garment for the legs and feet and for the body below the waist, worn in Europe throughout the Middle Ages; applied also to the armor for the same parts, when fixible, as of chain mail.
  

Mail defenses for the thigh.