casque
See also: casqué
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French casque. Doublet of casco and cask.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
casque (plural casques)
- A helmet.
- 1764, Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto, section I:
- He beheld his child dashed to pieces, and almost buried under an enormous helmet, an hundred times more large than any casque ever made for human being, and shaded with a proportionable quantity of black feathers.
- A hard structure on the head of some birds, such as the hornbill or cassowary.
- 2015, James Eaton et al., “Trade-driven extinctions and near-extinctions of avian taxa in Sundaic Indonesia”, in Forktail, page 2, column 2:
- Helmeted Hornbill, Rhinoplax vigil (CR): Restricted to the Thai-Malay Peninsula, Sumatra and Borneo, this is the only hornbill species whose casque is solid keratin and therefore carvable.
Translations edit
visorless helmet
hard structure on the head of some birds, such as the hornbill or cassowary
Anagrams edit
French edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Noun edit
casque m (plural casques)
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
- → Bulgarian: ка́ска (káska)
- → English: casque
- → Romanian: cască
- → Russian: ка́ска (káska)
- → Turkish: kask
- → Ukrainian: ка́ска (káska)
Etymology 2 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb edit
casque
- inflection of casquer:
Further reading edit
- “casque”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
- casque on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia fr
Anagrams edit
Galician edit
Verb edit
casque
- inflection of cascar:
Portuguese edit
Verb edit
casque
- inflection of cascar:
Spanish edit
Verb edit
casque
- inflection of cascar: