morion

¹ American  

[mawr-ee-on, mohr-] / ˈmɔr iˌɒn, ˈmoʊr- /

noun

1. an open helmet of the 16th and early 17th centuries, worn by common soldiers and usually having a flat or turned-down brim and a crest from front to back.

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morion ² American  

[mawr-ee-on, mohr-] / ˈmɔr iˌɒn, ˈmoʊr- /

noun

1. a variety of smoky quartz of a dark-brown or nearly black color.

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morion ¹ British  

/ ˈmɔːrɪən /

noun

1. a 16th-century helmet with a brim and wide comb

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morion ² British  

/ ˈmɔːrɪən /

noun

1. a smoky brown, grey, or blackish variety of quartz, used as a gemstone

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Etymology

Origin of morion¹

1555–65; < Middle French < Spanish morrión, equivalent to morr ( o ) top of head + -ión noun suffix

Origin of morion²

1740–50; < Latin mōrion, misreading of mormorion a kind of crystal

Example Sentences

Sunlight gleamed from the polished steel of halberd, morion, breastplate, pauldron, rerebrace.

From Time Magazine Archive

He knew that whichever way he turned the morion, it would tell Mm the same story.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

The Armoury, where the small boy who was later to be Sir Lancelot was standing with his morion, was the largest single room in the castle of Ben wick.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

According to Chaucer it was of more uses than one:— "Their beef they often in their morion stewed."

From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir

They were mourn'd and forgotten, as with many has since been done.41 CIX Th' unwounded bore exulting, grim trophies of the field, Full many a batter'd morion, full many a shiver'd shield.

From The Nibelungenlied Revised Edition by Unknown