basnet
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Oh! is my basnet a widow's curch, Or my lance a wand o' the willow-tree, Or my arm a lady's lily hand, That an English lord should lightly me?
From Queen Hildegarde by Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards
The nobleness of one whose head was covered by that royal basnet; the fearlessness of one whose brows were consciously shaded by it.
From The Old Helmet, Volume I by Susan Warner
O is my basnet a widow’s curch, Or my lance a wand of the willow-tree, Or my arm a ladye’s lilye hand, That an English lord should lightly me?
From Ballads of Scottish Tradition and Romance Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Third Series by Frank Sidgwick
And he arose and did on his hauberk and basnet, and girt his sword to his side, and went forth, a-foot as before.
From The Well at the World's End: a tale by William Morris
Thus the basnet— "My basnet to a prentice cap, Lord Surrey's o'er the Till."
From The Romance of Words (4th ed.) by Ernest Weekley
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