barbute

plural barbutes · alternative barbut · alternative barbuta · alternative barbuti

1. A type of visorless helmet, of 15th-century Italian design, including a T or Y shaped opening for the eyes and mouth.

   Medium helmets weighing about six pounds occur in visored bassinets, salades, barbutes, armets and certain burganets.

   1920, Bashford Dean, Helmets and Body Armor in Modern Warfare, page 46

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   Men and women laced their arming caps and donned their helmets—tall bassinets, practical kettle hats, or sturdy barbutes. Soldiers always rode out armed from head to foot—but only a novice or an overeager squire rode in his helmet or gauntlets.

   2013, Miles Cameron, The Red Knight, Orbit, →ISBN

   In place of the visor, the barbute enclosed most of the face, leaving only relatively small openings for the eyes, nose, and mouth. Some barbutes, such as the one shown, appear to have been modeled on ancient Greek helmets.

   2018, Paul B. Newman, Daily Life in the Middle Ages, McFarland, →ISBN, page 213