However, he held out until they reached the carriage.
It came out of the dusk behind them, and might have been the call of a curlew on the moor.
Alarmed, Mary looked intently in that direction, and made out three or four figures struggling before the door of the house.
It shows a pointed and fluted basinetwith the camail of "banded mail" fastened to it.
The basinet was made much more globular in form, and a piece of plate called the gorget or neck-piece took the place of the camail to connect the basinet with the body armour.
A "snout-nosed" basinet with movable visor or ventaille of the time of Richard II.
The basinet now rested on the gorget, and was so arranged that the head could be turned to right and left.
The head is covered with a conical basinet (without a face-piece), to which the camail of chain mail is fastened.
A heaume or great helmet, worn in the tournament over the basinet and resting upon the shoulders (1375).
There are a few examples of knights clothed entirely in plate armour, with the exception of the basinet and camail, and this is therefore called the Transition Period leading to the time of the complete adoption of plate armour.
After 1380 the basinet was made shorter, but the great heaume still continued to be worn, often being strengthened by an additional plate on the left side, where the wearer was likely to receive blows.
The basinet was open at the face or had a movable face-piece (visor or ventaille).
The original small basinet was a light open cap, with a peaked crown.
But in the latter half of the 13th century the basinetwas developed into a complete war head-dress and replaced the heaume.
This hood was soon to lose its crown, the later basinets having the camail, a defence of mail covering neck, cheeks and chin and secured to the basinet with eyelet holes and loops through which a lace was passed.
But there were many knights who still fought with the great helm covering basinet and camail, a fact which speaks eloquently of the mighty blows given in this warlike age.
The desire for a better defence than a steel cap and camail and a less cumbrous one than the great helm, in which the knight rode half stifled and half blind, brought in as a fighting headpiece the basinet with a movable viser.
The chain camail has gone out of fashion, the basinet continuing itself with a chin and cheek plate which joins a gorget of plate covering the collar-bone, a movable viser shutting in the whole head with steel.
A crack in his rusty basinet showed where Fulk’s sword had bitten him.
A ringed coat and an open basinet hung on a peg above the dais, with a plain black shield and a sword in a blue scabbard.
Then Knollys, in light harness, came down into the courtyard, and with him a tall man in black armour, the vizor of whose basinet was closed.
Like the basinet it was worn in a simple form by archers and pikemen and in a more elaborate form by the knights and men-at-arms.
Often a light basinet was worn underneath it--or rather the knight usually wore his basinet and only put the heaume on over it at the last moment before engaging.
Soon after the beginning of the 15th century the high-crowned basinet gave place to the salade or sallet, a helmet with a low rounded crown and a long brim or neck-guard at the back.
Towards the end of the 13th century, however, the basinet grew in size and strength, just as the casque had grown, and began to challenge comparison with the heavy and clumsy heaume.
This was the typical headpiece of the last half of the Hundred Years' War as the vizored basinet had been of the first.
A small mantle of some rich materials, attached to the knightly basinet or helm, and worn hanging down.
Basinet with Crest-Wreath, Effigy of Sir Humphrey Stafford, A.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "basinet" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
