Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as umbrel, 3.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun obsolete In ancient armor, a visor, or projection like the peak of a cap, to which a face guard was sometimes attached. This was sometimes fixed, and sometimes moved freely upon the helmet and could be raised like the beaver. Called also umber, and umbril.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun obsolete In ancient armour, a visor, or projection like the peak of a cap, to which a fixed or movable faceguard was sometimes attached.

Etymologies

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French ombre ("a shade"). See umbrella.

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