barbut

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Noun[edit]

barbut (plural barbuts)

  1. Alternative form of barbute (helmet)
    • 1973, The Scottish Art Review:
      The barbut helmet and right gauntlet are contemporary, but do not belong; the left gauntlet is modern. Acquired from Schloss Churburg by W. R. Hearst in 1928, from whom bought by R. L. Scott in 1938.
    • 2006, S. M. Stirling, The Protector's War, Penguin, →ISBN, page 106:
      Getting a shaft through the T-slit of the barbut helm was . . . You'd have to be dead lucky, as Sam would say.
    • 2010, Fred Saberhagen, Empire of the East, Macmillan, →ISBN:
      His garments and his helm and shield were black and red; he held his sword out in a half-extended arm, so that the point was scarce a meter from Rolf's heart. The warrior's face was hidden in a barbut helm, black ...
    • 2010, Dr Breda Lynch, A Monastic Landscape: The Cistercians in Medieval Ireland, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN:
      ... the most important part of the armour is the barbut helmet, one of the only two known examples from Ireland and the Jerpoint example appears to be the earliest.

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Etymology[edit]

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *barbūtus. By surface analysis, barba +‎ -ut.

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barbut (feminine barbuda, masculine plural barbuts, feminine plural barbudes)

  1. bearded

Noun[edit]

barbut m (plural barbuts)

  1. barbet (various species of birds in the infraorder Ramphastides)

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Romanian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish باربود (barbut).

Noun[edit]

barbut n (plural barbuturi)

  1. craps

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