Lexicographical Neighbors of Morrions
Literary usage of Morrions
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Certificate of Musters in the County of Somerset: Temp. Eliz. A. D. 1569 by Somerset (England) (1904)
"Every person of £100 kept two geldings, three corslets, three almain rivets,
three pikes, three long bows and arrows, three steel caps, two morrions and two ..."
2. Chronological History of the West Indies by Thomas Southey (1827)
"About seventy Indians were with them, armed with swords, shields, and morrions (head
pieces), and they had large red cords, rolled round their bodies. ..."
3. The Gentleman's Magazine (1827)
"in/. A two-handed flaming sword of the time of Henry VIII. sold at ll. lit.
Five steel morrions sold in lots, at &L 6t. An halberd of the time of Edward IV. ..."
4. The Conquest of New Granada: Being the Life of Gonzalo Jimenez de Quesada by Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham (1922)
"When the brilliant cavaliers, all dressed in silks with velvet cloak.s and shining
arms, gilt morrions and waving ..."
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