The armet shown on Plate V opens in the front and when closed is fastened with a spring hook.
The various parts of the armet have been already described in Chapter III.
The armet on the Seusenhofer suit in the Tower, which has been noticed in this chapter, is a very perfect example of this style of headpiece.
Whereas the salade is in form a hat-like defence, the armet fits the head closely and can only be put on by opening the helmet, as is shown on Plate V and Fig.
The armet does not appear in monumental effigies in England before the reign of Henry VIII.
Sir Galeas, Duke of Milan, and when he had selected all he wished for in plated and mail armour, the Lord of Milan ordered four of the best armourers in Milan to accompany the knight to England.
The breastplate is the peascod with tapul form, and the cuissarts "a ecrivisse" form the only protection for the legs.
The extraordinary richness of the damascening and applique work is reproduced in Fig.
The tuilles are flexible and pointed, formed of narrow horizontal plates; the shoulder-plates are bossed into lions' heads; and the armet has a double visor without bavier.
The armet continued to be used by mounted officers until the middle of the seventeenth century, a picture of Rocroy, 1643, showing Conde in a hat, but his staff in visored helmets.
Upon the gold ground the design has been painted, a knight in Gothic armour, with armet and poll-axe on the ground before him, kneeling to a lady, with the appropriate legend Vous ou la mort.
They wear the close helmet orarmet of Italian fashion, with a high comb and a large sharply-pointed visor.
All these forms of helm were more or less contemporary with the sallad, which gave place in turn to the armet or closed helmet, first heard of in 1443.
The armet has usually a low central cabled comb with parallel flutes on either side, occasionally there are three or five combs.
The armetfrequently comprised, especially in the later examples, a fixed gorget, generally of two or more articulated plates.
English armet from the collection of Seymour Lucas, A.
In France, however, a page of the Count de St. Pol bore a richly-worked armet on the entry into Rouen of Charles VII.
Like, perhaps, the sallad, the armet was invented in Italy, and did not reach England or even Germany till about 1500.
The armet is of fine form, with the visor thrown into the series of peaks and ridges common to fluted armour, and known to collectors as the bellows shape.
The armet is combed, but differs in form from the Jacobe type, and the visor is pierced on one side with round holes.
Towards the end of the Tabard Period the armet was introduced into England, and partially superseded the salade and other forms of head-protection.
Another armet from the same collection has the pointed visor and bavière in one plate, while the roundel is shown at the back (Fig.
The head is protected by an armet of very fine proportions, opening down the centre of the chin-piece, and having a bavière and visor in a single plate.
The roundel at the back of the neck in the armet gave way to a plate-guard.
With a good armet and gorget there was no weak point for the enemy's sword to attack, a roped lower edge of the armet generally fitting into a sort of flange round the top of the gorget.
The armetwas connected to the rest of the suit by the gorget, which was usually of thin laminated steel plates.
The armet was a fairly close-fitting rounded shell of iron or steel, with a movable vizor in front and complete plating over chin, ears and neck, the latter replacing the mentonniere or beaver.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "armet" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
