flying helmet

noun

A leather head covering with earflaps used by early aviators.

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Meanings

nounflying helmet (plural flying helmets)

plural flying helmets

  1. A leather head covering with earflaps used by early aviators.

    This is another area in which it's hard to tell the dude from the twitcher, as ratting caps and deerstalkers, flying helmets and even toppers are considered acceptably eccentric.

    1980, Bill Oddie, Bill Oddie's Little Black Bird Book, page 61
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