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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A steel cap without vizor, but covering the cheeks and ears, used in the fifteenth century and later by foot-soldiers, archers, etc., and by the common people in times of danger.
  • noun A man-at-arms: from the name of the helmet worn by heavily armed men.

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