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casque

NOUN
  1. (15-16th century) any armor for the head; usually ornate without a visor

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  • It is an elegant example of what the French call a casque bourgignon, a Burgundian helmet of distinctive design that was the choice of kings and noblemen—a handsome, high-crowned helmet with a comb and helm forged from a single piece of metal.5 Above the helmet is a large plume of white feathers called a panache—the origin of our modern word. Champlain's Dream
  • _casquet_ still crowding out his lop ears; his hand clenched beside a stiletto which lay on the stone flagging beside him. The Dark Star
  • The archetype of the burgonet is perhaps the casque worn by the Swiss infantry (fig. 9 a) at the epoch of Marignan (1515).
  • The next reason is for commercially valuable by-products like horns, antlers, pelt, bones, feathers and casques.
  • [Footnote: J’ai d閖� dit que la salade 閠oit un casque beaucoup moins lourd que le heaume. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
  • French Vocabulary la casquette = cap le camion = truck le sécateur = pruning shears le gant = glove voilà! Harvest
  • The bony helmet on his head, called a casque, is distinctively bent and on one side appears rectangular. Birdology
  • On top of the head is a "casque" - a helmet-like growth of tough skin. KUSA-TV -
  • Head-covering without visor, "chapeline casque leger en fornie de calotte sans masque. The Maids Armor
  • Des civils massacrés pratiquement sous les yeux de Casques bleus impuissants ou indifférents: Kiwanja sera-t-il un Srebrenica congolais? In the Congo, Fighting Continues
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