Morion

Definitions

1. A kind of open brimmed helmet used by footsoldiers in the 16th and 17th centuries, having no visor or bevor.
   historical
2. A brown or black variety of quartz.

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Examples

“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 more than their limbs[…].”

“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.”

“The morion is a kind of open⟳ helmet, without visor or bever, somewhat resembling a hat; it was commonly worn by the harqubussiers and musqueteers.”

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