Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A late-medieval light helmet with a neck guard and movable visor.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The most complete and perfect defensive head-covering of the middle ages, introduced about 1450, and remaining in use until the abandonment of the closed headpiece, more than a century later.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A kind of helmet worn in the 14th, 15th, and 16th centuries.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A type of
mediaeval full-facehelmet
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a medieval helmet with a visor and a neck guard
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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August day, had taken off his "armet" (helmet) and was too exhausted to think about taking prisoners.
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Story Structure #5: Positional Scenes mood: No armet yet
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In many cases a vizor, or other face protection, and a chin-piece are found in addition, so that this piece of armour is sometimes mistaken for an armet (_q. v._), but it can always be distinguished by the projecting brim in front.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"
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And now he showed me pieces of armour, that is, a vizored headpiece or armet, with cuirass, backplates, pauldrons and vambraces, all very richly gilded, the which it seemed he had chosen for my defence.
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Toronto's Impact Machine Design Inc. also has a U.S. patent pending for a radically redesigned helmet called the "Vault," inspired in part by a 14th+-century Italian armet.
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279 Smote on his neck, his neck Unfenced, for he in haste aroused had cast An armet on.
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