chapel de fer
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From French chapel de fer.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]chapel de fer (plural chapels de fer)
- (historical) A kettle hat, a type of helmet.
- 1842, Samuel Rush Meyrick, A Critical Inquiry Into Antient Armour, page 102, quoting an older work:
- "Also sixteen chapels de fer, with seven broken wooden cross-bows." Joinville observes, that when the knights were wounded it became impossible very often, from the weight, and consequent fatigue, to put on their defensive [armor].
- 1867, John Murray (firm), Handbook for Travellers in Yorkshire ..., page 170:
- […] knight has a chapel de fer with wreath, a collar of SS., and on his surcoat a chevron charged with […]
- 2000, Harold Leslie Peterson, Arms and Armor in Colonial America, 1526-1783, Courier Corporation, →ISBN, page 113:
- The morion was essentially a chapel de fer with a comb added to the bowl and the brim elongated and turned up in peaks before and behind.
- 1842, Samuel Rush Meyrick, A Critical Inquiry Into Antient Armour, page 102, quoting an older work:
French
[edit]Noun
[edit]chapel de fer m (plural chapels de fer)
- Alternative form of chapeau de fer: a chapel de fer (helmet)
- 1839, Louis François de Villeneuve-Bargemont (marq. de Villeneuve-Trans.), Histoire de saint Louis, roi de France, page 473:
- Les plastrons et les chapels de fer, les bassinets, les pots de fer, etc., […]
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 1839, Louis François de Villeneuve-Bargemont (marq. de Villeneuve-Trans.), Histoire de saint Louis, roi de France, page 473:
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