Crossword-Solution: ARMET 5 letters, 28 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

And now he showed me pieces of armour, that is, a vizored headpiece or armet, with cuirass, backplates, pauldrons and vambraces, all very richly gilded, the which it seemed he had chosen for my defence.

Roland, neveu de l'empereur Charles-Magne, se rompit une veine en sonnant de son cor, que l'on entendoit ‡ plus de sept lieues, ce qui contribua autant ‡ sa mort que la soif ardente qu'il ne put Ètancher, ayant trouvÈ que le ruisseau dans lequel il alloit puiser de l'eau avec son armet Ètoit tout rouge de sang.

ARMET, är'met, _n._ a helmet introduced about 1450 in place of the basinet, consisting of an iron cap, spreading over the back of the neck, having in front the visor, beaver, and gorget.

The final step was the discarding of the "camail" and the introduction of the "armet." The latter will be described later.

The _armet_, which came into use about 1475-1500 and completely superseded the salade, realized these requirements far better, and later at the zenith of the armourer's art (about 1520) and throughout the period of the decline of armour it remained the standard pattern of helmet, whether for war or for tournament.