morion
1an open helmet of the 16th and early 17th centuries, worn by common soldiers and usually having a flat or turned-down brim and a crest from front to back.
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a variety of smoky quartz of a dark-brown or nearly black color.
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How to use morion in a sentence
Juan Pizarro had been wounded previously in a skirmish and on account of this wound was unable to wear his morion.
South American Fights and Fighters | Cyrus Townsend BradyThere is a light leather helmet of the morion type, dated sixteenth century, in the Zeughaus at Berlin.
Armour & Weapons | Charles John FfoulkesThe morion and the Cabasset are both helmets worn by foot-soldiers, and appear about the middle of the sixteenth century.
Armour & Weapons | Charles John FfoulkesHe has himself made the "morion" of the ancients, dispensing the prescription of Dioscorides and Pliny.
In fact, morion was originally made from the Atropa belladonna, not from its ally the Atropa mandragora.
British Dictionary definitions for morion (1 of 2)
/ (ˈmɔːrɪən) /
a 16th-century helmet with a brim and wide comb
Origin of morion
1British Dictionary definitions for morion (2 of 2)
/ (ˈmɔːrɪən) /
a smoky brown, grey, or blackish variety of quartz, used as a gemstone
Origin of morion
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