visor

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

VI'SOR, noun s as z. [Latin visus, video; written also visard, visar, vizard.] 1. A head piece or mask used to disfigure and disguise. My weaker government since, makes you pull off the visor Swarms of knaves the visor quite disgrace. 2. A perforated part of a helmet.
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