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flying helmet

flying helmet noun: a leather head covering with earflaps used by early aviators.

Noun

flying helmet (plural flying helmets)

  1. A leather head covering with earflaps used by early aviators.
    • This is another area in which it's hard to tell the dude from the twitcher, as ratting caps and deerstalkers, flying helmets and even toppers are considered acceptably eccentric.1980, Bill Oddie, Bill Oddie's Little Black Bird Book, page 61

Forms of flying helmet

pluralflying helmets

Questions about flying helmet

What does flying helmet mean?
Flying helmet means a leather head covering with earflaps used by early aviators.
What part of speech is flying helmet?
Flying helmet is a noun.
What is the plural of flying helmet?
The plural of flying helmet is flying helmets.

Words near flying helmet in the dictionary

  1. flying gurnard
  2. flying gurnards
  3. flying handkerchief
  4. flying handkerchiefs
  5. flying hatchetfish
  6. flying helmet
  7. flying helmets
  8. flying high
  9. flying ice cube effect
  10. flying in
  11. flying in the face of

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