casque

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Noun

casque (plural casques)

1. A helmet.
   • 1764, Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto, I:

     He beheld his child dashed to pieces, and almost buried under an enormous helmet, an hundred times more large than any casque ever made for human being, and shaded with a proportionable quantity of black feathers.

2. A hard structure on the head of some birds, such as the hornbill or cassowary.

Translations

• Russian: откры́тый

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