Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An obsolete form of
basinet .
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- noun A
bascinet .
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Examples
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Pursuant to these orders each ward was assessed for the purpose of levying 110 men armed with haketon, plates, bacinet with aventail, and gloves of plate; and sixty men armed with only haketon and bacinet.
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An archer of this time was clad in a cuirass, or a hauberk of chain-mail, with a salade on his head, which was a kind of bacinet.
King Henry the Fifth Arranged for Representation at the Princess's Theatre William Shakespeare 1590
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He was habited in his “_cote d’armes_,” containing the arms of France and England quarterly, and wore on his bacinet a very rich crown of gold and jewels, circled like an imperial crown, that is, arched over.
King Henry the Fifth Arranged for Representation at the Princess's Theatre William Shakespeare 1590
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