Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
casket . - noun A head-piece without a movable vizor, worn in the sixteenth century and later.
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- noun a light open casque without a visor or beaver
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Examples
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It is like some miniature and magic church, a casquet made splendid not with jewels but with beauty, where the miracle picture of Madonna -- not that ancient and wonderful picture by Ugolino da Siena, but a work, it is said, of Bernardo
Florence and Northern Tuscany with Genoa With Sixteen Illustrations In Colour By William Parkinson And Sixteen Other Illustrations, Second Edition Edward Hutton 1922
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There is but little of interest in the present buildings at Vallombrosa, which date from the seventeenth century; nor does the church itself possess anything of importance, unless it be the relic of S. Giovanni enshrined in a casquet of the sixteenth century, a work of Paolo
Florence and Northern Tuscany with Genoa With Sixteen Illustrations In Colour By William Parkinson And Sixteen Other Illustrations, Second Edition Edward Hutton 1922
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_casquet_ still crowding out his lop ears; his hand clenched beside a stiletto which lay on the stone flagging beside him.
The Dark Star William Dodge Stevens 1899
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