mambrino

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A medieval iron hat. attributive,obsolete
    — Even the better class of people put up with very bad hats or mambrinos of all shapes and sizes.

词形变化

mambrinos plural

词源

In reference to an incident in Cervantes' Don Quixote de la Mancha, where a barber uses his brass basin to protect his hat from the rain; Don Quixote believes this basin to be the enchanted helmet of the Moorish king Mambrino.
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