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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. 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  • In fact, morion was originally made from the Atropa belladonna, not from its ally the Atropa mandragora.