a hatlike, crested helmet without a beaver or visor and with a curved brim coming to a peak in front and in back, worn in the 16th and 17th cent.
Origin of morion
Old French from Spanish morrión from morra, crown of the head, snout: see morainemorion
mo·ri·on a variety of quartz, dark-brown to black in color
Origin of morion
misreading of Classical Latin mormorion (in early editions of Pliny)Webster's New World College Dictionary, Fifth Edition Copyright © 2014 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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morion
noun
A crested metal helmet with a curved peak in front and back, worn by European soldiers in the 1500s and 1600s.
Origin of morion
French from Spanish morrión from morro snout, thick lip, rounded end of an object probably from Vulgar Latin murrum snout, of imitative origin
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16th-century etched Italian morion
noun
A black or blackish-brown form of smoky quartz.
Origin of morion
French from a postclassical Latin misreading of Latin mormorion a kind of dark precious stone perhaps from an unattested Greek word of unknown originTHE AMERICAN HERITAGE® DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, FIFTH EDITION by the Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries. Copyright © 2016, 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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Noun
(plural morions)
Origin
From Middle French morion, and its source, Spanish morrión, probably from morra (“crown of the head"). Perhaps compare moraine.
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