Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A small, light, rounded steel helmet, terminating in a point and often closed in front with a visor.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A steel cap, originally of very simple form, named from its resemblance to a little basin. It was ordinarily worn alone; but in battle the heavy helmet or heaume was placed over it, resting upon the armor of the neck and shoulders. When the heaume came to be abandoned, on account of its great weight, the basinet was furnished with a vizor. It was the commonest form of headpiece during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, and so continued until the introduction of the armet. See helmet, vizor, aventaile, camail, and armor.
Wiktionary
- n. bascinet
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Same as bascinet.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a medieval steel helmet
Etymologies
- Middle English, from Old French bacinet, diminutive of bacin, basin; see basin. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The mattress of the basinet is usually a folded clean comfort slipped into a pillow slip; this is to be preferred to a feather pillow, as it is cooler and in every way better for the babe.”
“We used to take her in her basinet and whip her feet up, you know, so she would, like, snap.”
“A kind of helmet introduced about the middle of the 15th century, in place of the basinet.”
“Usually at this point in the day, I would place the baby in the basinet and quickly run through the shower, barely letting the water hit me so that I could be completely ready and have the house somewhat in order before the baby awakened.”
“One of the family myths that has been passed down to me is of my father being fed up with my nighttime crying and demanding that my mother take me down to the basement in my basinet.”
“Otto placed baby Bonnie, nestled in her white wicker basinet, on the opera seat of the Buick.”
“Otto paused, glanced at the baby in her basinet then looked up at the sky that had turned the color of a fresh bruise.”
“It conjures up the image of a small but perfectly formed infant Betj, bald and rompered, his beady gaze alternately eyeing up his nurse's starched uniform and the passing Highgate villas from his basinet.”
“I found that I couldn't easily lift her out or set her into the cosleeper while I was lying in bed, so, having to get up anyway, a basinet would have just as functional.”
“It just seemed like her glass basinet was so remote, foreign, and cold after nine months of being in my womb.”
Lists
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