How To Use Casque In A Sentence
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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
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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
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The archetype of the burgonet is perhaps the casque worn by the Swiss infantry (fig. 9 a) at the epoch of Marignan (1515).
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The next reason is for commercially valuable by-products like horns, antlers, pelt, bones, feathers and casques.
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[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
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French Vocabulary la casquette = cap le camion = truck le sécateur = pruning shears le gant = glove voilà!
Harvest
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The bony helmet on his head, called a casque, is distinctively bent and on one side appears rectangular.
Birdology
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On top of the head is a "casque" - a helmet-like growth of tough skin.
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Head-covering without visor, "chapeline casque leger en fornie de calotte sans masque.
The Maids Armor
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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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Robinson Crusoe, and casques on their heads like the old knights errant in romance; you never saw such tremendous figures; but without this kind of cloathing it would be impossible to stir out at present.
The History of Emily Montague
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In the brief but interesting accounts of this singular man, which we meet with in the ancient Chronicles of Italy, it is mentioned that he was the inventer of a new species of casque or steel basnet, denominated
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 492, June 4, 1831
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[Footnote: J'ai déjà dit que la salade étoit un casque beaucoup moins lourd que le heaume.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 10 Asia, Part III
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Some cracids have brightly colored skin on the face or neck, or ornaments such as wattles, casques or combs.
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French Vocabulary la casquette = cap le camion =truck le sécateur = pruning shears le gant = glove voilà!
Harvest
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Some species have a prominent head casque, wattles or bare heads and necks with brightly colored skin.
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Miss Clara: she had a large casque with a red horse-hair plume (I thought it had been a wisp of her brother's beard at first), and held a tin-headed spear in her hand, representing a Roman warrior in the great picture of "Caractacus" George was painting -- a piece sixty-four feet by eighteen.
The Christmas Books of Mr. M.A. Titmarsh
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The casque, a protrusion on the upper bill that gives hornbills their name , may play a role in sexual selection or amplify the birds' calls.
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The burgonet shared many of the same features as the casque; the two are often confused with one another.
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How cassowaries produce their deep ‘boom’ is unclear, though Mack and his team speculate that cassowary communication is linked to the tall casques, or horn-like crests, that rise from the bird's head.
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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.
'Champlain's Dream: The European Founding of North America'
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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
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Some cracids have brightly colored skin on the face or neck, or ornaments such as wattles, casques or combs.
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In general, the sexes are fairly similar, though females are slightly larger and more brightly colored, and have larger casques.
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If the birds' crests are shown to play a role in communication, then investigators may have a clue as to how ancient casque-bearing dinosaurs interacted.
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Never frown, even when you are sad, casque dr dre, because you never know who is falling in love with your smile.
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Cracids may have a casque, hard comb, wattle or fleshy knob at the base of the bill.
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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
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Its casque was described as intermediate between that of C. unappendiculatus and C. bennetti, being compressed rostrally but mound-like caudally.
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For every stud of silver on his casque of bronze he must have fought in a pitched battle; and for each tuft of hair upon his charger’s poitrel he must have slain a foe in hand-to-hand encounter.
The Roman Traitor (Vol. 1 of 2)
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They have intire coats of beaver skin, exactly like Friday's in Robinson Crusoe, and casques on their heads like the old knights errant in romance; you never saw such tremendous figures; but without this kind of cloathing it would be impossible to stir out at present.
The History of Emily Montague
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Rocks that are cruel and relentless as the surges that sweep over them in stormy weather, and which are so quaintly named from their helmet, or "casque" - like resemblance -- rocks, concerning which the poet Swinburne has sung in his eloquent verse, that breathes the very spirit of the sea in depicting the strife of the elements:
Bob Strong's Holidays Adrift in the Channel
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Thought to have diverged from other avian lines in the Late Cretaceous Period, the colorful animal can measure five feet tall from its helmetlike casque to its daggerlike foot spurs, and it weighs up to 125 pounds.
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_ (Casqued halberdiers in armour thrust forward a pentice of gutted spearpoints.
Ulysses
