umbrell
Middle English
[edit]Noun
[edit]umbrell
- the visor of a helmet
- 1470–1485 (date produced), Thomas Malory, “Capitulum xj”, in [Le Morte Darthur], book V, [London: […] by William Caxton], published 31 July 1485, →OCLC; republished as H[einrich] Oskar Sommer, editor, Le Morte Darthur […], London: David Nutt, […], 1889, →OCLC:
- Than dressed hym Sir Bors unto a sterne knyght and smote hym on the umbrell, that his neck braste.
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