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basenet

basenet is the obsolete form of bascinet.

Meaning of bascinet

Noun

bascinet (plural bascinets)

  1. A light helmet, typically with a high, pointed skull, either open-faced (in early models) or made with a visor (later models).

Forms of basenet

pluralbasenets

Questions about basenet

What is basenet the obsolete form of?
Basenet is the obsolete form of bascinet.

Words near basenet in the dictionary

  1. basename
  2. basenames
  3. basened
  4. baseness
  5. basenesses
  6. basenet
  7. basenets
  8. basening
  9. basenji
  10. basenjis
  11. baseonemoside

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Adapted from Wiktionary: basenet (page history and authors); bascinet (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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