chapel de fer

English

Etymology

French chapel de fer.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃæˈpɛl də ˈfɛəɹ/

Noun

chapel de fer (plural chapels de fer)

1. (historical) A kettle hat, a type of helmet.
   • 1842, Samuel Rush Meyrick, A Critical Inquiry Into Antient Armour, page 102, quoting an older work:

     "Also sixteen chapels de fer, with seven broken wooden cross-bows." Joinville observes, that when the knights were wounded it became impossible very often, from the weight, and consequent fatigue, to put on their defensive [armor].

   • 1867, John Murray (firm), Handbook for Travellers in Yorkshire ..., page 170:

     […] knight has a chapel de fer with wreath, a collar of SS., and on his surcoat a chevron charged with […]

   • 2000, Harold Leslie Peterson, Arms and Armor in Colonial America, 1526-1783, Courier Corporation, →ISBN, page 113:

     The morion was essentially a chapel de fer with a comb added to the bowl and the brim elongated and turned up in peaks before and behind.

French

Noun

chapel de fer m (plural chapels de fer)

1. Alternative form of chapeau de fer: a chapel de fer (helmet)
   • 1839, Louis François de Villeneuve-Bargemont (marq. de Villeneuve-Trans.), Histoire de saint Louis, roi de France, page 473:

     Les plastrons et les chapels de fer, les bassinets, les pots de fer, etc., […]

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