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chapel de fer en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ʃæˈpɛl də ˈfɛəɹ/

Etymology

From French chapel de fer.

Meanings

1. (historical) A kettle hat, a type of helmet.
   • The morion was essentially a chapel de fer with a comb added to the bowl and the brim elongated and turned up in peaks before and behind. 2000, Harold Leslie Peterson, Arms and Armor in Colonial America, 1526-1783, Courier Corporation, →ISBN, page 113:
   • "Also sixteen chapels de fer, with seven broken wooden cross-bows." Joinville observes, that when the knights were wounded it became impossible very often, from the weight, and consequent fatigue, to put on their defensive [armor]. 1842, Samuel Rush Meyrick, A Critical Inquiry Into Antient Armour, page 102, quoting an older work
   • […] knight has a chapel de fer with wreath, a collar of SS., and on his surcoat a chevron charged with […] 1867, John Murray (firm), Handbook for Travellers in Yorkshire ..., page 170

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