casque

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See also: casqué

English

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A 4th-century Roman ornamental casque

Etymology

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Borrowed from French casque. Doublet of casco and cask.

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Noun

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casque (plural casques)

  1. A helmet.
    • 1764, Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto, section I:
      He beheld his child dashed to pieces, and almost buried under an enormous helmet, an hundred times more large than any casque ever made for human being, and shaded with a proportionable quantity of black feathers.
  2. A hard structure on the head of some birds, such as the hornbill or cassowary.
    • 2015, James Eaton et al., “Trade-driven extinctions and near-extinctions of avian taxa in Sundaic Indonesia”, in Forktail, page 2, column 2:
      Helmeted Hornbill, Rhinoplax vigil (CR): Restricted to the Thai-Malay Peninsula, Sumatra and Borneo, this is the only hornbill species whose casque is solid keratin and therefore carvable.

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French

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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Borrowed from Spanish casco.

Noun

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casque m (plural casques)

  1. helmet
  2. hard hat
  3. headphones
  4. (zoology) casque
Derived terms
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Descendants
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  • Bulgarian: ка́ска (káska)
  • English: casque
  • Romanian: cască
  • Russian: ка́ска (káska)
  • Turkish: kask
  • Ukrainian: ка́ска (káska)

Etymology 2

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

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casque

  1. inflection of casquer:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

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Galician

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Verb

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casque

  1. inflection of cascar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Portuguese

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Verb

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casque

  1. inflection of cascar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Spanish

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Verb

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casque

  1. inflection of cascar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative