Most of them have decent explanations, when you work hard enough at it:
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An armet is a two-piece helmet from 15th century with a moveable facemask.
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A “gee” is a type of horse. There’s a line in Gilbert & Sullivan’s “I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major-General” from Pirates of Penzance in which the major-general rhymes “strategy” with “sat a gee.” A footnote to one edition explained that “sat a gee” meant “rode [that kind of] a horse.”
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