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  • noun Plural form of morion.

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Examples

  • Useless wings twitched beneath a long flowing cape of pure silk inlaid with ten thousand amethysts and morions shaped by the empire's finest gem-cutters and polishers, and attached to the cape by a dozen royal seamstresses.

    A Corridor in the Asylum 2010

  • A caricature of a Imperialistic short dark guy, with funny metal hats (morions, FYI), or the necessary evil needed to enrich the England Corsaires (and through them the West Indian Company) in the pirates age.

    Think Progress » Buchanan: Americans Should Consider Allowing Only White Immigrants 2006

  • Nothing could stand before this terrific weapon, and the breast-plates and plumed morions of the French cuirassiers would have been undoubtedly crushed beneath them, had they ever met in mortal combat.

    The History of the Next French Revolution 2006

  • Nothing could stand before this terrific weapon, and the breast-plates and plumed morions of the French cuirassiers would have been undoubtedly crushed beneath them, had they ever met in mortal combat.

    Burlesques 2006

  • The entire array, moreover, clad in burnished steel, and with plumage nodding over their bright morions, had a brilliancy of effect which no modern display can aspire to equal.

    The Scarlet Letter 2002

  • With those thoughts on his mind, he opens the door for Ryalth, then morions for Eileyt to enter as well.

    The Magi'i Of Cyador Modesitt, L. E. 2000

  • The Kremlin had given up its barbaric shields and caps of bronze; the plate-mail of the Crusader; the gold-inlaid morions and cuirasses of France; the silver chain-mail of the Circassian; the steel corslet of the German chivalry; and a whole host of the various and rich equipments of the Greek, the Hungarian, the Moresco, and the Turkoman, made the Winter palace a blaze of knighthood.

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845 Various

  • The entire array, moreover, clad in burnished steel, and with plumage nodding over their bright morions, had a brilliancy of effect which no modern display can aspire to equal.

    XXII. The Procession 1917

  • On we went, through scattered villages alive with khaki-clad figures with morions cocked at every conceivable angle, past leafy lanes bright with the wink of long bayonets; through country towns, whose wide squares and narrow, old-world streets rang with the ordered tramp of feet, the stamp of horses and rumble of gun wheels, where ruddy English faces turned to stare and broad khaki backs swung easily beneath their many accoutrements.

    Great Britain at War Jeffery Farnol 1915

  • Forthwith I buckled on one of the morions we had brought for the purpose and very uncomfortable I found it.

    Great Britain at War Jeffery Farnol 1915

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