helmet

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  1. noun A head covering of hard material, such as leather, metal, or plastic, worn by football players, firefighters, construction workers, motorcyclists, and others to protect the head.
  2. noun The headgear with a glass mask worn by deep-sea divers.
  3. noun A pith helmet; a topi.
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  • What they could see of its face and head inside a helmet were almost as shaggy as those of an Unop-Patha, but the eyes were far too small and the mouth too large. —  Dirge
  • His face in the helmet was a chiaroscuro of darkness and faint highlights. —  Starfarers
  • Too, the common Gorean helmet, with its "Y" - shaped aperture, of which his helmet was a variant, tends to have somewhat formidable appearance. —  Magicians of Gor
  • The sweat from his helmet was almost blinding him. —  The Eternal Mercenary
  • On his helmet were the letters CMDF. —  Fantastic Voyage
 

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  1. Middle English, from Old French, diminutive of helme, of Germanic origin; see kel-1 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. = Dutch helmet, from Old French *helmet, etmet, healmet, heaumet, hiaumet. diminutive of heaume, etc., English helm = Dutch helm, etc.: see helm.
 

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/ˈhɛlmɛt/
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