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medieval headgear so iconic that birds wear it without asking permission
means A piece of armor for the head — a helmet — or, in birds like the cassowary, a bony or horny helmet-shaped crest atop the skull.
from From French casque, 'helmet,' borrowed from Spanish casco, which originally meant a potsherd or fragment before coming to mean a helmet. Casco is thought to derive from the verb cascar, 'to break or shatter,' tracing back to a Vulgar Latin root meaning to crack — so the headgear that protects your skull shares an ancestor with the idea of things splitting apart. The English word and the related casket are cousins through this same Romance lineage.
- helmet roots
- French for combat helmet, from Spanish casco
- living crown
- cassowary's casque is a bony, skin-covered head crest
- sound theory
- casques may help cassowaries hear deep booming calls
- hornbill version
- some hornbills carry casques denser than ivory
adrian mutu headbutt — chelsea player received 7-match ban after headbutting opponent in 2003
zinedine zidane headbutt — france captain headbutted marco materazzi in 2006 world cup final, received red card