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Aventail

noun
1.
A medieval hood of mail suspended from a basinet to protect the head and neck.  Synonyms: camail, ventail.






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... not, nor do them reverence; For though thine husband armed be in mail, The arrows of thy crabbed eloquence Shall pierce his breast, and eke his aventail; In jealousy I rede* eke thou him bind, *advise And thou shalt make him couch* as ...
— The Canterbury Tales and Other Poems • Geoffrey Chaucer



Words linked to "Aventail" :   basinet, hood



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