Home › Words › B › barbutebarbute/ˈbɑː.b(j)uːt/barbute means A type of visorless helmet, of 15th-century Italian design, including a T or Y shaped opening for the eyes and mouth.barbute is pronounced /ˈbɑː.b(j)uːt/.EtymologyFrom Italian barbuta, perhaps because it left a wearer's beard (if any) visible.nounA type of visorless helmet, of 15th-century Italian design, including a T or Y shaped opening for the eyes and mouth.e.g.“Medium helmets weighing about six pounds occur in visored bassinets, salades, barbutes, armets and certain burganets.” — 1920, Bashford Dean, Helmets and Body Armor in Modern Warfare, page 46:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.bicoque 64% match — A style of 15th-century helmet (or helmet visor). vs barbute →cabasset 63% match — An Italian helmet with a stalk-like projection on the top resembling a pear. vs barbute →bascinet 63% match — A light helmet, typically with a high, pointed skull, either open-faced (in early models) or made with a visor (later models). vs barbute →barret 63% match — A kind of fitted cap worn by medieval soldiers. vs barbute →umbrere 62% match — In medieval armour, a visor, or projection like the peak of a cap, to which a fixed or movable faceguard was sometimes attached. vs barbute →burgonet 62% match — A light helmet worn by infantrymen, bearing a crest and hinged cheekpieces, but typically without a visor. vs barbute →buffe 61% match — A piece of armor covering either the entire face, or the lower face together with a visor that covered the upper face, typically made of multiple lames that could be opened by being lowered (a falling buffe) or raised. vs barbute →armet 60% match — A type of mediaeval helmet which fully enclosed the head and face, first found in the 1420s in Milan. vs barbute →