Basinet is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.
You can make 301 anagrams from letters in basinet (abeinst).
1250-1300; Middle English bas(e)net Middle French bacinet. See basin, -et
The basinet, then, is the battle head-dress of nobles, knights and sergeants in the 14th century.
The pillow or mattress may be turned or perhaps the mattress be raised nearer the edge of the basinet.
His helmet is a basinet, pointed at the top, probably worn over a complete hood of mail flowing to the mid-breast.
The clangor of steel rose deafeningly, and sparks flew as Conan's sword crashed on basinet and hauberk.
But in the latter half of the 13th century the basinet was developed into a complete war head-dress and replaced the heaume.
Then an ax, swung blindly in the dark, crashed on the king's basinet, filling his eyes with sparks of fire.
The first bed is usually a basinet—a wicker basket with high sides—with or without a hood.
The basinet was open at the face or had a movable face-piece (visor or ventaille).
And yet I would wager my basinet to a prentice's flat cap that it is not, for a moment, to be compared to Acre.'
The basinet now rested on the gorget, and was so arranged that the head could be turned to right and left.
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