armet

American  

[ahr-met] / ˈɑr mɛt /

noun

Armor.

1. a completely enclosed helmet having a visor and hinged cheek pieces fastened under the chin.

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armet British  

/ ˈɑːmɛt /

noun

1. a close-fitting medieval visored helmet with a neck guard

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Etymology

Origin of armet

1500–10; < Middle French, equivalent to arme arm ² + -et -et

Example Sentences

The burgonet, often confused with the armet, is the typical helmet of the late 16th and early 17th centuries.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" by Various

Here to the wyldernes as armet geon he And thus temptyth hym covytice with oon gold dyshie.

From Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Carlisle A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Episcopal See by Eley, C. King

And now he showed me pieces of armour, that is, a vizored headpiece or armet, with cuirass, backplates, pauldrons and vambraces, all very richly gilded, the which it seemed he had chosen for my defence.

From Martin Conisby's Vengeance by Farnol, Jeffery

The armet was connected to the rest of the suit by the gorget, which was usually of thin laminated steel plates.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" by Various

It was generally formed of small overlapping rings of plate, and attached either to the body armour or to the armet.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" by Various