close helmet

American  

[klohz] / kloʊz /

noun

Armor.

1. a completely closed helmet of the late 15th century and after, having a facial defense composed of a visor and beaver or of a visor, ventail, and beaver attached to a pivot on each side.

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Example Sentences

It has a close helmet from which the hair, delicately parted on the forehead, half escapes.

From Project Gutenberg

Upon the plates of the Knights of the Garter at Windsor, all degrees used the old profile close helmet till about 1588, some few excepted; and soon after, the helmet with barrs came into fashion, and was used for all degrees of nobility, and it has continued ever since; and the same has been used for all degrees of nobility upon the plates of the Knights of the Bath, those that are knights only using a knight's helmet.

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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 Project Gutenberg

Esquires and gentlemen are known by the close helmet.

From Project Gutenberg

He wore a close helmet, from which streamed a long feather, of the same hue.

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