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morion

/ˈmɒɹɪən/

morion noun: a kind of open brimmed helmet used by footsoldiers in the 16th and 17th centuries, having no visor or bevor.

morion: a kind of open brimmed helmet used by footsoldiers in the 16th and 17th centuries, having no visor...
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Noun (1)

morion (plural morions)

  1. (historical) A kind of open brimmed helmet used by footsoldiers in the 16th and 17th centuries, having no visor or bevor.
    • The Roman footmen caried not their morions, sword and target only, as for other armes (saith Cicero) they were so accustomed to weare them continually, that they hindered them no more than their limbs[…].1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 9, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC
    • This unlucky defect, however, his industry supplied by a vizor, which he made of paste-board, and fixed so artificially to the morrion, that it looked like an intire helmet.1755, Miguel de Cervantes, translated by Tobias Smollett, Don Quixote, Volume 1, I.1

Noun (2)

morion (plural morions)

  1. A brown or black variety of quartz.

morion meaning in Tamil

morion in Tamil

முகமூடியிலா மண்டைக்கவசம், தலை மூய்

Forms of morion

pluralmorions

Origin of morion

From Middle French morion, from, Spanish morrión, from morra (“upper part of the head”), from morro (“muzzle, snout”), from Vulgar Latin *murrum (“muzzle, snout”). Related to moraine (“an amassment of rocks on a glacier”).

From French morion, from Late Latin mōrion, a misreading in some manuscripts for Latin mormoriōn.

Questions about morion

What does morion mean?
Morion means a kind of open brimmed helmet used by footsoldiers in the 16th and 17th centuries, having no visor or bevor.
What is morion in Tamil?
Morion in Tamil is முகமூடியிலா மண்டைக்கவசம், தலை மூய். See Morion meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is morion?
Morion is a noun.
How do you pronounce morion?
Morion is pronounced /ˈmɒɹɪən/ (UK).
What is the plural of morion?
The plural of morion is morions.

Words near morion in the dictionary

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  4. morio worms
  5. Morioka
  6. morion
  7. morions
  8. Moriori
  9. Morioris
  10. Moris
  11. Moriscan

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Adapted from Wiktionary: morion (page history and authors); morion (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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