helmlets

Noun

helmlet (plural helmlets)

1. A helmet that covers the face; a small helm.
   • Goggles laid down his pen gently, and elevated the spectacles from his nose till they rested on his forehead, as a knight of old would throw up the visor of his helmlet– 't was a trick he had, when he was about saying or doing anything emphatic – a symbolical intimation that he was going to use...1856 April, “Balancing the Books”, in Littell's Living Age, volume 49, number 621, page 149