morion
/mawr-ee-on, mohr-/US // ˈmɔr iˌɒn, ˈmoʊr- //UK // (ˈmɔːrɪən) //
奄奄一息,奄拉,奄奄一息的人,奄克
Definitions
n.名词 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.
Examples
Juan Pizarro had been wounded previously in a skirmish and on account of this wound was unable to wear his morion.
There is a light leather helmet of the morion type, dated sixteenth century, in the Zeughaus at Berlin.
The Morion and the Cabasset are both helmets worn by foot-soldiers, and appear about the middle of the sixteenth century.
He has himself made the "morion" of the ancients, dispensing the prescription of Dioscorides and Pliny.
In fact, morion was originally made from the Atropa belladonna, not from its ally the Atropa mandragora.
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