Obs. Also 6 -ell. [ad. OF. ombrel shade: cf. UMBRERE.] The visor of a helmet.
[1437. in Meyrick, Ant. Armour (1824), II. 127. Arma in primis v galee cum v umbrells et iiii ventells.]
c. 1470. Lydgate’s Chron. Troy., III. 1636 (MS. Digby 230). With his swerde so myȝtely [Ulysses] gan race Thoruȝ þe vmbrel in to Troylus face.
1530. Palsgr., 285/1. Umbrell of an heed pece, uisiere.
