aventail
Americannoun
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Also called camail. a mail tippet suspended from the lower edges of a 14th-century basinet as a protection for the neck, throat, and shoulders.
Etymology
Origin of aventail
1300–50; Middle English < Anglo-French aventaille, equivalent to a- (< ?) + ventaille ventail
Example Sentences
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“For future reference, the neck protection of a helmet is usually known as an aventail in arms and armour vocabulary.”
From The Guardian ● Jul. 17, 2015
Pursuant to these orders each ward was assessed for the purpose of levying 110 men armed with haketon, plates, bacinet with aventail, and gloves of plate; and sixty men armed with only haketon and bacinet.
From London and the Kingdom - Volume I by Sharpe, Reginald R. (Reginald Robinson)
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