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
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"How is that, my fair sir?" cried the armorer as he drew the bassinet over the head and fastened it to the camail which extended to the shoulders.
From Sir Nigel by Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir
The high priest wore upon his ephod, which was a kind of camail, rich rings, that served as clasps; a large emerald was set and engraved with mysterious names.
From Thaumaturgia by Oxonian, An
She had not changed her dress; only she had replaced her camail with a scarf of blue silk about her neck and shoulders and had removed her gloves and capuche.
From Strange True Stories of Louisiana by Cable, George Washington
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 Black, Robert
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
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