camail
Americannoun
noun
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Etymology
Origin of camail
1660–70; < French < Old Provençal capmalh, equivalent to cap head ( see chief) + malh mail 2
Example Sentences
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On his black and wavy hair he carries, half-drawn to one side, a scarlet camail, the tippet of which falls upon and covers his wide shoulders.
From The Iron Pincers or Mylio and Karvel A Tale of the Albigensian Crusades by Eugène Sue
The young prelate betook himself with so much ardor to his theological studies, that at twenty years of age he was a doctor, and maintained his theses in rochet and camail as bishop-nominate.
From A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 5 by Robert Black
Vervelle, ver-vel′, n. the loop that secured the camail in medieval armour.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
The Cardinal owes its name to the bright red of the feathers, and to a little cowl on the hind part of the head, which resembles that of the bishop's ornament, called a camail.
From History of Louisisana Or of the Western Parts of Virginia and Carolina: Containing by Le Page du Pratz
But there were many knights who still fought with the great helm covering basinet and camail, a fact which speaks eloquently of the mighty blows given in this warlike age.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 6 "Armour Plates" to "Arundel, Earls of" by Various
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