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A medieval hood of mail suspended from a basinet to protect the head and neck
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aventail
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context chain mail armour English) the flap or adjustable part of the hood of mail, which when unfastened allowed the hood to drop upon the shoulders. 2 (context solid armour English) The movable front to a helmet; the ventail.
WordNet
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n. a medieval hood of mail suspended from a basinet to protect the head and neck [syn: camail , ventail ]
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
An aventail or camail is a flexible curtain of mail attached to the skull of a helmet that extends to cover the throat, neck and shoulders. Part or all of the face, with spaces to allow vision, could also be covered. The earliest camails were riveted directly ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Aventail \Av"en*tail\, n. [OF. esventail. Cf. Ventail .] The movable front to a helmet; the ventail.
Usage examples of aventail.
For though thine husband armed be in mail, The arrows of thy crabbed eloquence Shall pierce his breast, and eke his aventail.
There was a rustling chink of chainmail as his helmet's rear aventail slid across the shoulders of his hauberk.
Some, if they could afford it or had been lucky enough to glean such winnings from the field, had more armor: a boiled leather coat or a scale hauberk, a leather aventail, even leather bindings on their arms and legs.
By the time he had affixed his ring-mail veil and aventail and settled his helmet on his head, he felt ready to go into the oven and come forth as cooked meat.
For though your husband be all armed in mail, The arrows of your shrewish eloquence Shall pierce his breast and pierce his aventail.
Finally, he hooked a foot behind the baron's leg and sent him crashing down on the stones, then thrust him in the throat through his mail aventail.
Helmets and aventails masked their faces, and they were bundled against the cold wind as well, but from the silver kingfishers on their breastplates, Verminaard could tell that they were members of the Solamnic Order and therefore splendid fighters.