Meaning of lobster-tailed pot | Babel Free

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A European combat helmet, worn especially from the 1600s into the 1700s, consisting of a rounded skull-piece, often cheek guards and a nasal or face-guard, and a laminated defence (or single plate ridged to imitate lames) to protect the back of the neck that resembled a lobster's tail.

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“They wore a back-and-front breastplate over a buff leather coat, which itself gave some protection against sword cuts, and normally a "lobster-tailed pot" helmet with a movable three-barred visor, and a bridle gauntlet on the left hand.”

“The close⟳ helmet shown in the illustration was by this time giving place⟳ to the pot, the familiar lobster-tailed pot with side-pieces or cheeks and a barred, open⟳ face⟳ protection.”

“During sieges, those sapeurs working in the entrenchments closest to the enemy's position would wear⟳ heavy cuirasses and pâts en tête (a helmet resembling the “lobster-tailed pot” worn by Cromwell's Ironsides), both painted black.”

“Clad in the famous buff leather coat, breastplate and 'lobster-tailed pot' helmet, the New Model⟳ soldier is instantly recognizable to us. The disadvantage of using professional soldiers is that they have⟳ to be paid, and dissatisfaction ...”

“He jammed his own⟳ helmet onto his head. It was nowhere close⟳ to being as fancy a helmet as the one the woman had removed, just the common sort⟳ of lobster-tailed pot helmet known as a zischagge.”

““Because I don't think⟳ that is a seventeenth-century helmet.” There was something odd about the smoothness of the crown. The skull of the lobster-tailed pot helmet was often fluted. Generally, they were made in two sections joined by a ...”

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