单词 | helmet-crest |
释义 | helmet-crestn. 1. (Also helmet crest.) The crest of a helmet. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > armour > helmet > [noun] > crest crestc1325 timbre1478 helmet-crest1509 timbrel1513 cone1737 comb1834 1509 S. Hawes Pastime of Pleasure xxxiii. viii Upon his first head in his helmet crest. 1676 T. Hobbes tr. Homer Iliads (1677) 244 Lycon him hit upon the helmet-crest. 1815 W. Scott Lord of Isles iii. vi. 89 The honour'd pledge you gave..shall wave Upon my helmet-crest. 2. A crested hummingbird of the genus Oxypogon. ΚΠ 1863 J. G. Wood Illustr. Nat. Hist. II. 241 The Helmet-crests are very curious birds, and are at once known by the singular pointed plume which crowns the top of the head. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online September 2020). < n.1509 |
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