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Definition of Fencing mask
1. Noun. A face mask made of fine mesh that is worn over a fencer's face.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fencing Mask
Literary usage of Fencing mask
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"But under the protection of the fencing mask a new school of foil-play was evolved,
one in which swiftness and inveteracy of attack and parry, of riposte, ..."
2. The Young Folk's Cyclopædia of Games and Sports by John Denison Champlin, Arthur Elmore Bostwick (1890)
"fencing mask. has over his face a mask of wire gauze (see Fig. 1) and a padded
glove on his right hand. The foil should be held with the hilt (or handle) ..."
3. The Retrospect of Medicine by William Braithwaite (1863)
"1. The inhaler is a mask, the framework of which is of tinned iron or German
silver wire. It somewhat resembles a fencing mask, excepting that it is covered ..."
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