lobster-tailed pot

Example Sentences

• "They wore a back-and-front breastplate over a buff leather coat, which itself gave some protection against sword cuts, and normally a "lobster-tailed pot" helmet with a movable three-barred visor, and a bridle gauntlet on the left hand."
• "The close helmet shown in the illustration was by this time giving place to the pot, the familiar lobster-tailed pot with side-pieces or cheeks and a barred, open face protection."
• "During sieges, those sapeurs working in the entrenchments closest to the enemy's position would wear heavy cuirasses and pâts en tête (a helmet resembling the “lobster-tailed pot” worn by Cromwell's Ironsides), both painted black."
• "Clad in the famous buff leather coat, breastplate and 'lobster-tailed pot' helmet, the New Model soldier is instantly recognizable to us. The disadvantage of using professional soldiers is that they have to be paid, and dissatisfaction ..."
• "He jammed his own helmet onto his head. It was nowhere close to being as fancy a helmet as the one the woman had removed, just the common sort of lobster-tailed pot helmet known as a zischagge."
• "“Because I don't think that is a seventeenth-century helmet.” There was something odd about the smoothness of the crown. The skull of the lobster-tailed pot helmet was often fluted. Generally, they were made in two sections joined by a ..."