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noun

Visor n. (Written also visar, visard, vizard, and vizor)

A part of a helmet, arranged so as to lift or open, and so show the face. The openings for seeing and breathing are generally in it.

A mask used to disfigure or disguise. "My very visor began to assume life." "My weaker government since, makes you pull off the visor."

The fore piece of a cap, projecting over, and protecting the eyes.

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Etymology of 'Visor'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Visor" Quotes from Famous Books

... shield, but changing his aim almost in the moment of encounter, he addressed it to the helmet, a mark more difficult to hit, but which, if attained, rendered the shock more irresistible. Fair and true, he hit the Norman on the visor, where his lance's point kept hold ...

— Story Hour Readings: Seventh Year • E.C. Hartwell

... foes—Time and Prussia—the moments were worth more than troops. We must blow up the bridge. A lone soldier darts out from the Royals and swoops For the fuse! Fate seems with us. We cheer him; he answers—our hopes are reborn! A ball rips his visor—his khaki shows red ...

— A Treasury of War Poetry - British and American Poems of the World War 1914-1917 • Edited, with Introduction and Notes, by George Herbert Clarke

... mightily, but the relief did not last long. An indignant murmur rose up and down valley and creek bottom against the outrages, and one angry old farmer took a pot-shot at Captain Wells with a squirrel rifle, clipping the visor of his forage cap; and from that day the captain began to call with immutable regularity again on Flitter Bill for bacon and meal. That morning the last straw fell in a demand for a wagon-load of rations to be ...

— Christmas Eve on Lonesome and Other Stories • John Fox, Jr.

... his voice rang hollow through his closed visor, "without doubt it is the end of the world, and Murgh, the Minister, has been sent to open the doors of heaven and hell. God have mercy ...

— Red Eve • H. Rider Haggard

... over the left temple. The flesh was torn off, and if the skull was not fractured, it had received a tremendous hard shock. It was probably done at the instant when he turned to rally the men of Company K, and the ball glanced under the visor of his cap, close enough to scrape upon his skull, but far enough off to save his brains. Half an inch closer, and the bullet would have wound up Tom's ...

— The Soldier Boy; or, Tom Somers in the Army - A Story of the Great Rebellion • Oliver Optic

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