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• VISOR (also spelled viser, vizor, vizard or visard)

VISOR (also spelled viser, vizor, vizard or visard)  , a See also:

• TERM

term now used generally of the various forms of movable See also:

• FACE (from Lat. fades, derived either from facere, to make, or from a root fa-, meaning " appear "; cf. Gr. cbatvstv)

face-See also:

• GUARDS, AND HOUSEHOLD TROOPS

guards in the See also:

• HELMET (from an obsolete diminutive of O. Fr. helme, mod. heaume; the English word is " helm," as in O. Eng., Dutch and Ger.; all are from the Teutonic base hal-, pre-Teut. kal-, to cover; cf. Lat. celare, to hide, Eng. " hell," &c.)

helmet of See also:

• MEDIEVAL

medieval and later times . It meant properly a See also:

• MASK (Fr. masque, apparently from med. Lat. mascus, masca, spectre, through Ital. maschera, Span. mascara)

mask for the face, and is an See also:

• ADAPTATION (from Lat. adaptare. to fit to)

adaptation of the O.Fr. visiere, mod. visiere, as is seen by the M.E. forms viser, visere . It is thus to be referred to the Fr. vis, face, See also:

• LAT

Lat. visus, from videre, to see . In this sense the word " See also:

• VISOR (also spelled viser, vizor, vizard or visard)

visor " is See also:

• MODERN

modern, the movable guard for the upper See also:

• PART

part of the face being known as an " See also:

• AVENTAIL, or AVANTAILLE (O. Fr. esventail, presumably from a Latin word exventaculum, air-hole)

aventail " or " ventail," and that foi' the See also:

• LOWER

lower part a " See also:

• BEAVER
• BEAVER (from Fr. baviere, a child's bib, from bane, saliva)

beaver " (see HELMET) .