helmlet
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Goggles laid down his pen gently, and elevated the spectacles from his nose till they rested on his forehead, as a knight of old would throw up the visor of his helmlet– 't was a trick he had, when he was about saying or doing anything emphatic – a symbolical intimation that he was going to use some other organ than his eyes."
- "When the wife of a great prince, whose husband was absent at the siege of Troy, was urged by her friends to put on her royal robes and be cheerful, she answered: “My husband is under the walls of Troy; shall I adorn my hair while he wears a helmlet?"
- "It brought back to me the best of the long ago:—the wild garrison life on the plains, when day after day a restless child galloped by an officer's side, among stalwart troopers, and listened to tales of “our people at home,” or to old world stories, when men of our race wore steel corslets and helmlets, and fought for “St. George and Merrie England;""
- "At your front—in your face—he may strike you; But he takes not the night for his helmlet, Nor is treachery ever his weapon."