Citations:mezail
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English citations of mezail
- 1870, Auguste Demmin, Weapons of war, tr. by C.C. Black, page 278:
- It is composed of the crown with crest, the vizor, nose-piece and ventoyle (these latter three forming altogether the mezail), and the gorget. H, 28, Museum of Artillery, Paris. 17 147. Armet of the sixteenth century […]
- 1880, The Archaeological Journal, page 547:
- The ventacular perforations in the mezail assume the form of a cross-patée, one of the charges of the Berkeley coat armorial. Fourteenth century. Sir Noël Paton. 66 Before this helm passed into the collection of Sir Noël Paton it […]
- 1920, Guy Francis Laking, A Record of European Armour and Arms Through Seven Centuries
- […] with scrolls in the manner of the cantle steels of one of the saddles, two mezails, one of which was removed from a XVIIth century suit in St. James's Palace in 1908 and sent back to the Tower by command of King Edward VII.
- 1923, William Paley Baildon, Braybrooke: its castle, manor and lords, page 26:
- This mezail is strengthened by a rib in the form of a cable round the upper edge. It has an eye by which it could be hooked to the chin - piece. Both parts of the vizor are ornamented with scrollwork in silver, which has almost worn […]