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Definition of Noseguard
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Noseguard
Literary usage of Noseguard
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Description of Indian and Oriental Armour: Illustrated from the Collection by Wilbraham Egerton Egerton (1896)
"Hemispherical with plume-holder, porte- aigrettes, and sliding noseguard, the
latter terminating at its upper end in a pine shaped ornament of perforated ..."
2. An Illustrated Handbook of Indian Arms: Being a Classified and Descriptive by Indian Museum, Wilbraham Egerton Egerton (1880)
"Hemispherical with plume-holder, porte- aigrettes, and sliding noseguard, the
latter terminating at its upper end in a pine shaped ornament of perforated ..."
3. Old Provence by Theodore Andrea Cook (1905)
"... Valence with so shrewd a stroke that he was stunned and fell; and he led him
away prisoner by the noseguard of his helmet and brought him to his father. ..."
4. An Introduction to English Antiquities: Intended as a Companion to the by James Eccleston (1847)
"The helmet was conical, with a noseguard or nasal, to which the collar of the
hauberk was occasionally looped up, so as to leave no part of the face exposed ..."
5. Journal of the British Dental Association by British Dental Association (1890)
"He had found in these cases that gold sometimes peeled or would not adhere, and
he believed this was due to the breath of the patient; the noseguard was ..."
6. Football for Public and Player by Herbert Reed (1913)
"The noseguard, once so familiar on the field, and still the mainstay of the comic
artist, is all but a thing of the past. No man can play football at top ..."
7. Studies in English, Written and Spoken: For the Use of Continental Students by Cornelis Stoffel (1894)
"... moreover, the noseguard may have exercised a bearing on the character, as well
as on the countenance.—Punch, 1880, Vol. I (Vol. ..."
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