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Casque

noun

(15-16th century) any armor for the head; usually ornate without a visor.

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casquetel

northern casque-headed frog

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"Casque" Quotes from Famous Books

... to those that had heard him sing. And they gave him a casque and breast-plate, proof, they said, against any sword, and offered a sword that they said would surely cleave any breast-plate. For they fought not in battle with the nimble rapier. But Rodriguez did not forsake that famous exultant sword whose deeds he knew ...

— Don Rodriguez - Chronicles of Shadow Valley • Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, Baron, Dunsany

... true that Sir Philip Sidney, burning with fever of his death-wound, reproved the soldier who brought him water in his helmet, that "he wasted a casque-full on a dying man," then humor borrowed largely ...

— Four Years in Rebel Capitals - An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death • T. C. DeLeon

... description of her—tall, sturdy, with the bust of a goddess, a real antique, a Juno of twenty, her chin somewhat prominent, her mouth and nose perfect in contour, her eyes large and full like a heifer's, and her whole face quite dazzling—gilded, so to say, by a sunflash—beneath her casque of heavy jet-black hair. ...

— The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete - Lourdes, Rome and Paris • Emile Zola

... my casque of courage with eye-swords that sorely smite; * She pierced my patience' ring-mail with her shape like cane-spear light: Patched by the musky mole on cheek was to our sight displayed * Camphor set round with ambergris, light dawning through ...

— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 3 • Richard F. Burton

Words linked to "Casque" : body armour, body armor, helmet, suit of armour, coat of mail, casquetel, cataphract, northern casque-headed frog, suit of armor