Incontinent ran Roger to fetch hisbascinet the which Beltane slowly fitted on above his hood of mail, and thereafter, albeit unwillingly, fronted this doughty knight, foot to foot and point to point.
Then Beltane did on coif and bascinet and rose to his feet, whereat the Bailiff cried out in sudden fear and knelt with hands upraised: "Slay me not, my lord!
Then, kneeling by Sir Fidelis, he took his heavy head upon his arm and beheld his cheeks pale and wan, his eyes fast shut, and saw his shiningbascinet scored and deep-dinted by the blow.
It superseded the bascinet for use in war, and will be described further on in these pages.
The bascinet is worn by the Lord of Ajofrin’s contemporary, Don Bernardo de Anglesola, of Aragon (see plate 8).
The custom of wearing the large helm over the bascinet being clumsy and troublesome, many kinds of visor were invented, so as to dispense with the large helm, except for jousting, two of which are represented in Figs.
It was fixed to hinges at the sides of the bascinet with pins, and was removable at will.
It was rimmed with a thin thread of gold, and, like his brother, he wore a bascinet wreathed with black and yellow velvet.
I have chosen thee for my equerry to-day; so make thou haste and don thine armor, and then come hither again, and Hollingwood will fit thee with a wreathed bascinet I have within, and a juppon embroidered with my arms and colors.
It was met with a jarring blow that made his wrist and arm tingle, and the next instant he received a stroke upon the bascinet that caused his ears to ring and the sparks to dance and fly before his eyes.
It was a beautiful bascinetof inlaid workmanship, and was edged with a rim of gold.
As he ended speaking he drew back, and Gascoyne, mounting upon a stool, covered his friend's head and bascinet with the great jousting helm, making fast the leathern points that held it to the iron collar.
In that little time he was within a few paces of Myles, who stood motionless as a statue, holding the bascinet and the bridle-rein of Lord George's horse.
The bascinet that Blunt wore glanced the blow partly, but not entirely.
I met thee at thy bidding, I dare to thee to meet me now at mine, and to fight this battle out between our two selves, with sword and buckler and bascinet as gentles should, and not in a wrestling match like two country hodges.
Myles was polishing his bascinet with lard and wood-ashes, rubbing the metal with a piece of leather, and wiping it clean with a fustian rag.
The method of attaching the camail to the bascinet was by a lace running through staples termed vervelles, which were visible until about the year 1387, when the fashion was introduced of covering them with a more or less enriched border.
An earlier form of bascinet is shown in the windows of the same church which has a close-fitting visor, very similar to those which marked the advent of the pot-helm in the thirteenth century (Fig.
The bascinet is of a peculiar swelling form so suggestive of the globular head-pieces fashionable on the Continent at that period, and the camail is finished over the chest in engrailed escallops.
During the period under consideration the great heaume was in use for tilting purposes, the visored bascinet being reserved for warfare.
A panache surmounts the elaborate coronet; the occularium is very high, and could hardly allow of a bascinet being worn underneath.
He has demi-plate upon the legs and is furnished with a bascinet (Fig.
The bascinet and bavière are in one piece, and the whole revolves upon the gorget, which is probably prolonged upwards inside the headpiece.
The snout-faced visor upon the bascinet shows it to be of the period now dealt with.
The upper portion of this camail was securely fixed to the bascinet by means of staples or vervelles (Fig.
The latter example is a strange mixture of old and new styles; high pointed bascinet and camail being blended with palettes and taces.
A trifle over the average height and rather slender, and clad in complete mail except for the bascinet which he carried in his hand, there was something in his appearance and bearing that impressed even the warlike Richard.
Tossing his gauntlets and bascinet upon the high bed that stood in the corner near the door, he crossed to the small deep window and swung back the sash.
The acton and bascinet might, however, be replaced by an habergeon and "a hat of iron".
His head is protected by a bascinet of steel, without visor to protect the face, though the picture represents him as actually engaged in the thick of a battle; but the steel gorget is brought up so as to protect the lower part of the face.
Hard by, in easy reach upon the sward, Lay rusty bascinetand good broadsword.
On his head he wore an iron bascinet cap, rusty and much dinted, and from under its rim straggled locks of dark brown hair inclining to curl.
All wore strong leathern "jacks" or doublets; iron bascinet caps or round helmets with cheek plates, but no visors; and heavy jack boots with large spurs.
She had now divested herself of her bascinetand steel jupon, and the young squire saw before him a tall, stately lady of about thirty years of age.
On his head he wore a flat cap of crimson velvet, his steel bascinet being carried by a squire; while a mounted man-at-arms bore his lance.
Then, drawing the knight's own misericorde, he cut the laces of his bascinet and plunged the dagger into his Adversary's throat.
The rear peak of the bascinet is prolonged over the neck, and in a later form of German origin the peak is hinged to allow the wearer to throw back his head with ease.
Bascinet from the tomb of the Black Prince, Canterbury, XIVth.
On referring to Plate V it will be seen that the bascinet was the precursor of the Salade, which may be considered the typical headpiece of the fifteenth century.
A bascinet in the Tower, which belonged to Henry VIII, bears two indented marks, signifying that it was proof against the large crossbow.
The later form of bascinet has a movable visor which is known among armour collectors as the 'pig-faced' bascinet (Plate V).
It was attached to the bascinet by Vervelles or staples which fitted into openings in the helmet.
The Bascinet is shown and also the short surcoat or Jupon.
Sometimes, in the case of Royalty or princes of rank, the bascinet was encircled with a fillet or crown of gold and gems.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bascinet" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
