face guard
IPA: fˈeɪsgˈɑrd
noun
- face mask consisting of a strong wire mesh on the front of football helmets
Examples of "face-guard" in Sentences
- His helmet was cylindrical, the _avantaille_, or face-guard, thrown up.
- All competitors have to be under six, weigh less than 60lbs - and wear a helmet and face-guard.
- Behind the bars of his face-guard, his eyes turned the last word into a question to the Aes Sedai.
- Bargnani played with a face-guard after taking an elbow to the nose from Moon in Monday's loss at Utah.
- Moments before his terrible injury, the goalie (on the left) lost his newly mandated red and white face-guard.
- The scar from a Trolloc arrow made a white triangle against Ragan's dark cheek behind the bars of his face-guard.
- Rand was just congratulating himself on getting it right when he noticed Tallanvor, his head still bent, glaring sideways at him from behind his face-guard.
- "They had Rip (Hamilton) face-guard me a little bit when I didn't have the ball and when I had it, I guess they tried to apply more pressure on the ball," Wade said.
- When King Arthur dons his armour to do battle with his first enemy, Armitage catches the edge of satirical irony audible in the original's fashion-show breathlessness: "The visor and face-guard were devoid of any defects,/stunningly enamelled and with silver-edged slits."