cabasset

From Catalan cabasset, perhaps via French cabasset.

• IPA^(key): /ˌkæbəˈsɛt/, /ˌkæbəˈseɪ/

cabasset (plural cabassets)

1. (historical) An Italian helmet with a stalk-like projection on the top resembling a pear.

• “cabasset”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “cabasset”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

cabàs +‎ -et.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [kə.βəˈsɛt]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [kə.bəˈsət]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ka.baˈset]

cabasset m (plural cabassets)

1. basket

   Synonym: cistella

2. cabasset (type of helmet)

• “cabasset” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
• “cabasset”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “cabasset”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.