Definitions for casques

casques casque

Spelling: [kask]
IPA: /kæsk/

Casques is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 17 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 107 anagrams from letters in casques (aceqssu).

Definitions for casques

noun

  1. an open, conical helmet with a nose guard, commonly used in the medieval period.
  2. any helmet-shaped head covering.
  3. Zoology. a process or formation on the head, resembling a helmet.

Origin of casques

1570-80; Middle French Spanish casco helmet, head, earthen pot; akin to cascara

Examples for casques

The helmet is forged in one piece, and follows the lines of the Botian casque.

Tymbre is the general word used for the casque or helm by the French.

It represented the Cardinal-Generalissimo wearing a casque surrounded by laurels.

The one is used to put a head on his cask, and the other used to put a cask (casque) on his head!

I took off his casque, and gave him my iron cap, so that he might get some air.

The bill, which is four inches long, and the casque are blackish.

Its visor was up, and what I saw within the casque is stamped for ever on my memory.

The coif can treat better with the cowl than the casque can do.

The casque is made of iron and horn, with silver-headed rivets.

In this species the casque or excrescence on the upper mandible is very slight.

Word Value for casques
Scrable

17

Words with friends

19

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