Test Your Vocabulary

Take Our 10-Question Quiz

Name That Thing

Take our visual vocab quiz

Test Your Knowledge »

True or False?

A quick quiz about stuff worth knowing

Take It Now »

Join Us on FB & Twitter

Get the Word of the Day and More

Facebook | Twitter
  1. Word Games
  2. Word of the Day
  3. New Words & Slang
  4. Video
 

casque


casque

noun \ˈkask\

Definition of CASQUE

1
: a piece of armor for the head : helmet
2
: an anatomical structure (as the horny outgrowth on the head of a cassowary) suggestive of a helmet
See casque defined for kids »

Origin of CASQUE

Middle French — more at cask
First Known Use: 1580

Other Military Terms

bivouac, logistics, petard, salient, sally, supernumerary, tactical

Rhymes with CASQUE

ask, bask, Basque, cask, flask, mask, masque, Pasch, Rask, task

Browse

Next Word in the Dictionary: casqued
Previous Word in the Dictionary: Caspian tern
All Words Near: casque

Seen & Heard

What made you want to look up casque? Please tell us where you read or heard it (including the quote, if possible).