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morrión
A kind of open brimmed helmet used by footsoldiers in the 16th and 17th centuries, having no visor or bevor.
The Roman footmen caried not their morions, sword and target only, as for other armes (saith Cicero) they were so accustomed to weare them continually, that they hindered them no m…
This unlucky defect, however, his industry supplied by a vizor, which he made of paste-board, and fixed so artificially to the morrion, that it looked like an intire helmet.
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