Cabacete

Cabacete
♦ A tall narrow helmet, with a turned-down brim which was drawn up to a point at front and rear, worn by Spanish infantry in the late fifteenth century.
(Wise, Terence. Medieval Warfare, 247)

Medieval glossary. 2014.

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