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war-mask en · NOUN
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A mask, visor, or the like, worn on the head into battle.
He that heedeth the path of the spear in the battle
Ran away from the fight, and he wept as he wended;
Unto him as he ran there, that warder of war-mask,
Nowise good was the hope of his getting him peace.
1892, William Morris and Eiríkr Magnússon, The Saga Library: The story of the Ere-dwellers (Eyrbyggja Saga), London: Bernard Quaritch, page 41:“Now, my friend, don't you recognise
your father's sword, his favourite weapon,
the one he wore when he went out in his war-mask
to face the Danes on that final day.”
1999, Seamus Heaney, Beowulf, London: Faber and Faber, page 65:
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