housse

slipcover; dust cover; blanket, attached to the saddle, which covers a horse's croup

Inherited from Middle French houce, from Old French hulce, from Vulgar Latin *hultia, from Frankish *hulfti, probably related to the verb *hulljan (“to cover”). Cognate with Old High German hulft (“blanket, saddlecloth”), Middle Low German hulfte, holfte (“sheath for a weapon, saddle holster, quiver”).