Player lined up opposite the center, in football

Usage examples of noseguard.

Coach Rake was known to sneak into the rear pew of the Bethel church on Sunday nights just to hear his former noseguard preach.

She did notice that each horseman was wearing a rounded metal helmet with a noseguard that effectively disguised his identity.

Beneath the metal noseguard was a glimpse of the high cheekbones, the strong chin, the eyes as keen as knife blades.

The straps had burst, and the noseguard was hanging loose by one rivet.

He wore a helmet that had a noseguard, came low behind to protect the neck, and was topped by a long golden spike.

The guy was big, a black man who looked like a noseguard, and not friendly.

Powerful legs were spread apart and thickly gartered with leather, his only covering besides the conical helmet with its long noseguard that concealed most of his face.

McCafferty wondered if the Brits had any need for NFL-style noseguards in their team sports.

Still more did he sweat in the conical noseguarded helmet, for it needed twice as much lining as it was meant to have, were it not to cover his head like a candle snuffer.

Their hands were bare, and the caps they wore had noseguards, but no visor over the eyes.

Thin prongs of gold sprouted a finger's length above the noseguards of their fur-trimmed helmets—one for the younger and three for the colonel.

Above their scarred faces rode spiked conical helmets with noseguards and chain coifs.