Crossword clues for casque
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Casque \Casque\ (k[.a]sk), n. [F. casque, fr. Sp. casco See Cask.] A piece of defensive or ornamental armor (with or without a vizor) for the head and neck; a helmet.
His casque overshadowed with brilliant plumes.
--Prescott.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"armor for the head," 1570s, from French casque (see cask).
Wiktionary
n. 1 A visorless helmet. 2 A hard structure on the head of some birds, such as the hornbill or cassowary.
WordNet
n. (15-16th century) any armor for the head; usually ornate without a visor
Wikipedia
Casque is a French word for helmet. It can refer to:
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Casque (anatomy), an enlargement on the beaks of some species of birds, including many hornbills
- Hornbill ivory, the casque of the helmeted hornbill, collected as a decorative material
- A large growth on the skulls of cassowaries
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- S. C. H. "Sammy" Davis (1887–1981), a motor-racing journalist who used the pen name Casque
- Casque-class destroyer, French Navy ships built between 1910 and 1912
Usage examples of "casque".
Blade and casque shivered together, and Gromel rolled lifeless on the floor.
Blade and casque shivered together and Gromel rolled lifeless on the floor.
Il supprima le tamisage antisolaire de son casque, mais ne vit pas mieux pour cela.
Night, the swift-walking darkness of the nights of the south, came suddenly upon the combatants: the casques of the one party, and the turbans of the other, were scarce perceptible, to guide the scimetar, or to serve as an aim for the arquebus.
I donned an informal casque, then took a smallsword down from the wall and belted it on.
They were costumed as grotesques, their heads encased in monstrous casques mat were contorted and painted in demonic expressions and fitted with red compound eyes.
In place of casques they had crash helmets, visors adjusted to full reflectiveness.
Betters peered down upon them from within massive war casques decked with exotic plumage.
He looked like a wound armature, his mask a sequined casque with a mime face.
Blade and casque shivered together and Gromel rolled lifeless on the floor.
The five-foot blade crushed Strabonus' casque and skull, and the king's charger reeled screaming, hurling a limp and sprawling corpse from the saddle.
The Nemedian's lance, striking his foe's helmet, snapped bolts and rivets and tore off the casque, revealing the features of Pallan-tides.
Then I heard Pelides shriek, and though I did not look at him, I could see him howling in rage, and his mask was no longer a mask but his true face, contorted in pain and agony, a casque of living jet.
Pelides lifted his gloved hands to his face, reached behind his casque, and pulled.
But Tias, finding the casque held in place by cords, was already cutting it free with the knife Pelides had given her.