close helm

From within the closed helm a voice called out: "Stop, strangers!"

Above the shield, the closed helm shows that the arms belong to an organisation rather than an individual.

The man stood silent, closed helm turned toward her.

Drifting from his closed helm like a plume was a vine studded with small flowers.

Bevor is also the term used for the hinged plate protecting the lower face and throat in the close helm.

Often an open faced helmet, such as the burgonet, was worn in place of the fully enclosing close helm.

His voice thundered within his closed helm.

Then he broke off as a great voice boomed from the closed helm of the Warrior in Jet and Gold.

The head was protected by a close helm, burgonet or lobster tail pot helmet, usually worn with a gorget for the neck.

Outis Rhavas loomed over him, a tower of enameled steel from closed helm to mailed boots.

It is believed that the close helm resulted from a combination of various elements derived from each of the preceeding helmet types.

The letter contained this brief message: "The tall knight in gray with closed helm is Norman of Torn," and was unsigned.

"Trot, March" rang out and the familiar jingling rattle of armor and equipment penetrated even Gaib's closed helm.

"Freidal is dead," said the Sunset Warrior, his voice muffled by the closed helm so that the Salamander could not make out its strange new tones.

The close helmet, also called the close helm was a military helmet worn by knights and other men-at-arms in the Late Medieval and Renaissance eras.

His companion was a little, grim, gray man but his suit of armor and closed helm gave no hint to his host of whom his guest might be.

The shield is topped by a crest featuring a closed helm topped with a torque above which an heraldic seahorse is emerging from the sea holding a flower.

But now that he felt he had solved the reason that he rode always with closed helm, he was for the first time anxious himself to hide his face from the sight of men.

In the event that the Rater Captain is one of the latter four, the closest helm to the Rater Captain in their category shall also be co-opted to the committee.

Additionally, several new forms of fully enclosed helmets were introduced in the late 14th century to replace the great helm, such as the sallet and barbute and later the armet and close helm.

The crest is a closed helm in gold lined with red, surmounted by a wreath and mantling of silver and blue, topped by another blue eagle on which are superimposed the same nine gold stars.

While an armet had two large cheekpieces hinged at the skull and opened laterally, a close helm instead had a kind of movable bevor which was attached to the same pivot points as its visor and opened vertically.

The term armet was often applied in contemporary usage to any fully enclosing helmet, however, modern scholarship draws a distinction between the armet and the outwardly similar close helm on the basis of their construction, especially their means of opening to allow them to be worn.

The sallet was gradually abandoned for field use in the first two decades of the 16th century, being largely replaced by the close helm and burgonet, however, it was retained into the mid century, in a heavily reinforced form, for some types of jousting.