armet
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From French armet, from Middle French armet, heaumet, from Old French helmet, ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *helm (“helmet”). Doublet of helm and helmet.
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armet (plural armets)
- A type of mediaeval helmet which fully enclosed the head and face, first found in the 1420s in Milan.
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armet m (plural armets)
- armet
- 1836, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, chapter XLV, in Louis Viardot, transl., L’Ingénieux Hidalgo Don Quichotte de la Manche, volume I, Paris: J[acques]-J[ulien] Dubochet et Cie, éditeurs, […], →OCLC:
- « Et je dis aussi que bien que ce soit un armet, ce n’est pas un armet entier. ¶ – Non certes, s’écria don Quichotte, car il lui manque une moitié, qui est la mentonnière. »
- "And I say that as much as it is an armet, it is not an entire armet" ¶ "Certainly not," exclaimed Don Quixote, "as it is missing a half, which is the beaver."
See also edit
- Armet (casque) on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia fr
Further reading edit
- “armet”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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armet
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