basnet

[ bas-nit, -net ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

, Armor.

But the magnificent recumbent bronze effigy below represents him in his fighting kit, basnet on head.

Roland hastened to pull off his basnet, and beseech the Abbot's blessing.

But the proofs only go as far as Thomas Basnet, of Coventry, born in 1590.

"Basnet," which occurs in stanza 10, is not a very common word in ballads.

Underwritten by Mr. Basnet is an order to pay this sum, April, 1646.

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