basnet
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They hammer'd out my basnet point Into a round salade, he said, The basnet being quite out of joint, Natheless the salade rasps my head.
From The Defence of Guenevere and Other Poems by William Morris
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
But the magnificent recumbent bronze effigy below represents him in his fighting kit, basnet on head.
From The Romance of Words (4th ed.) by Ernest Weekley
The groom stood in blank rumination; bore himself enduringly; and awaited with oxlike equanimity the stroke of some mace upon his basnet, which should crush him to the ground.
From Translations from the German (Vol 3 of 3) Tales by Musaeus, Tieck, Richter by Thomas Carlyle
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
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