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n. A small, light, rounded steel helmet, terminating in a point and often closed in front with a visor.

n. bascinet

n. Same as bascinet.

n. A steel cap, originally of very simple form, named from its resemblance to a little basin.

n. a medieval steel helmet

"The mattress of the basinet is usually a folded clean comfort slipped into a pillow slip; this is to be preferred to a feather pillow, as it is cooler and in every way better for the babe."

helmet   

bascinet