How To Use morion In A Sentence
- Sailor-fashion, he had no armor on but a light morion and a cuirass, so he was not too much encumbered to prevent his springing to his legs instantly, and setting to work, cutting and foining right and left at every sound, for sight there was none. Westward Ho!
- With sense 2 cf. French morion punishment inflicted on soldiers (1605), so called in allusion to the hat suspended at the end of the shaft of the halberd which held the soldier while the punishment was inflicted. Medallion Vulcan | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles
- Yellow quartz is sometimes known as citrine; when the quartz presents a pale brown tint it is called "smoky quartz"; and when the brown is so deep that the stone appears almost black it is termed morion. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"
- There are two nouns morion kind of helmet, does not concern us here (it is probably from Spanish smoky quartz, has an interesting etymology: it is from a Latin word here about collimate, from an erroneous reading of Latin collineare; I wonder if there is a list somewhere of words with similar histories? Languagehat.com
- He was in flexible mail, and under the rim of his planished morion were amorous curls. Main Street
- Certain varieties are sometimes distinguished (esp. by modern historians) according to shape, as comb (also cockscomb) morion, Spanish (also pear-shaped) morion, etc. Medallion Vulcan | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles
- Certain varieties are sometimes distinguished (esp. by modern historians) according to shape, as comb (also cockscomb) morion, Spanish (also pear-shaped) morion, etc. Medallion Vulcan | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles
- His helmet is no ordinary morion, or crude iron pot of the kind that we associate with Spanish conquistadors and English colonists. 'Champlain's Dream: The European Founding of North America'
- 38 Along the walls stood men-at-arms, in breastplate and morion, with halberds for their only weapon. Medallion Vulcan | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles
- N3, The vseles morion shall On crooke hang by the wall. c1600 Diurnal of Occurrents (1833) 212 Ane greit number of hagbittis, corslattis and mirriounis, togedder with some vyne [etc.]. c1600 Hist. Medallion Vulcan | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles
