† ˈumbrere Obs.
Also 5 oumbrer, owmbrer(e, vmberere, 6–7 vmbriere, 7 umbrier.
[app. a. AF. *umbrere, f. umbre shade, shadow; cf. obs. F. ombriere umbrella (Cotgr.).]
The visor of a helmet.
| a 1400 Sir Perc. 678 For to see hyme with syghte, He putt his umbrere on highte. ? a 1400 Morte Arth. 943 To þe creste of þe clyffe he clymbez one lofte; Keste upe hys vmbrere, and kenly he lukes. 1448–9 J. Metham Wks. (1916) 37 At þe fyrst metyng Amoryus þis odyr gan smyght Vp-on hys vmbrere. 1470–85 Malory Arthur viii. xli. 338 Thenne sire Lamorak knelyd adoune, and vnlaced fyrst his vmberere, and thenne his owne. 1590 Spenser F.Q. iii. i. 42 But the braue Mayd would not disarmed bee, But onely vented vp her vmbriere. 1596 Ibid. iv. iv. 44 He..therewith smote him on his vmbriere. 1655 tr. Sorel's Com. Hist. Francion vii. 4 It was cloven in the middle, as if it were the Umbrier of some Troopers old Head-piece. |