Definition of Face guard

1. Noun. Face mask consisting of a strong wire mesh on the front of football helmets.

Generic synonyms: Face Mask
Group relationships: Football Helmet

Lexicographical Neighbors of Face Guard

face-saving
face-to-face
face-up
face-value
face angle
face blindness
face card
face cards
face cloth
face cream
face down
face for radio
face form
face fungus
face guard (current term)
face lift
face lifting
face like a bag of spanners
face man
face mask
face mask penalties
face mask penalty
face masks
face men
face off
face offs
face pack
face painting
face peel

Literary usage of Face guard

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Transactions of the Society, Instituted at London, for the Encouragement of by Society of Arts (Great Britain, Royal Society of Arts (Great Britain) (1827)
"... Lambeth, for his Face-guard for Smelters, and other workers in hot metal. The guard is a kind of veil of wire gauze, which hangs before the face,-and ..."

2. Helmets and Body Armor in Modern Warfare by Bashford Dean (1920)
"These catches can be instantly pulled open and the face-guard thrown off in the event of ... A point of special interest of this face-guard is its lining, ..."

3. Costume in England: A History of Dress from the Earliest Period Till the by Frederick William Fairholt (1846)
"Randle Holme, Academy of Armory, 1688. BEAVER. The face-guard ... The same poet notices the heaver as a face-guard, thus: " He wore his beaver up. ..."

4. The London Journal of Arts and Sciences by William Newton (1828)
"Lambed), for his Face-guard for Smelters ; one of which has been placed in the ... This is to certify that 1 have had Joseph Callaghan's face-guard tried at ..."

5. Costume in England: A History of Dress to the End of the Eighteenth Century by Frederick William Fairholt (1885)
"The face-guard of a helmet; sometimes used to designate the helmet ... The same poet notices the beaver as a face-guard, thus:—• " He wore his beaver up. ..."

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