close helmet
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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He wore a close helmet, from which streamed a long feather, of the same hue.
From The Scottish Chiefs by Porter, Jane
He answers, in the only way he knows, childlike, direct: "I pressed through the fire which surrounded the rock; I released you from the close helmet; Siegfried I am called who have awakened you!"
From The Wagnerian Romances by Brownell, Gertrude Hall
It has a close helmet from which the hair, delicately parted on the forehead, half escapes.
From Heathen Mythology by Various
Esquires and gentlemen are known by the close helmet.
From The Manual of Heraldry; Fifth Edition Being a Concise Description of the Several Terms Used, and Containing a Dictionary of Every Designation in the Science by Anonymous
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