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visor

US/ˈvaɪzɚ/
nounB2Occasional — familiar, but not everyday · #10,120 of 15,258neutral

Other forms: visors

A visor is a stiff curved brim that shades the eyes. A tennis visor, pull down the visor, a helmet visor.

It shades without covering the head, which is why players wear one in hot weather. The word also covers the hinged face guard of a helmet, from armour to motorcycles, and the flap you pull down against the sun in a car.

NASA/Charles Conrad · Public domain

Definitions of visor

  1. 1nounvisorA stiff curved brim that shades the eyes.B2

    “The tennis player wore a white visor to keep the sun out of her eyes.”

visor is a shade.

Where it comes from

Old French visiere comes from vis, the face, from Latin visus, sight.

  1. Old French

    visiere

  2. Anglo-Norman

    viser

  3. Middle English

    viser

  4. English, today

    visor

From Middle English viser, from Anglo-Norman viser and Old French visiere.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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visor in the wild

  • A visor was an armored covering for the face often used in conjunction with Late Medieval war helmets such as the bascinet or sallet.

    Visor (armor)

  • The visor usually consisted of a hinged piece of steel that contained openings for breathing and vision.

    Visor (armor)

  • A 2023 investigation noted additional construction flaws in the bow visor.

    MS Estonia

  • A visor (face guard) was often employed from c. 1330 to protect the exposed face.

    Bascinet

  • A visor is a surface that protects the eyes, such as shading them from the sun or other bright light or protecting them from objects.

    Visor

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From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.