morion

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With a shrewd Welsh head under his iron morion, and a stout Welsh heart under his tawny doublet, he had gained little but hard knocks and a dozen wounds in his campaigning, and had but recently been ransomed, rather grudgingly by his government, from a Spanish prison in Brabant.

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  1. noun A crested metal helmet with a curved peak in front and back, worn by soldiers in the 16th and 17th centuries.
  2. noun A black or blackish brown form of smoky quartz.

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  1. French, from Spanish morrión, from morro, round object, probably from Vulgar Latin *murrum, muzzle.

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  1. Formerly also morian, morrion, murrion, murrian; from Old French (and F.) morion = Italian morione = Portuguese morrião, from Spanish morrion, a morion, prob. from morra, the crown of the head, from morro, anything round; cf. moron, a hillock; perhaps from Basque marua, a hill.
  2. apparently short for L. mormorion, a kind of dark-brown rock-crystallography
 

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/ˈmoʊriən/
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