aventail

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aventail

/ˈævənteɪl/

Where it comes from

From Middle English aventayle, from Old French esventail (“air-hole”), from esventer (Modern French éventer), from Latin ex (“out”) + ventus (“wind”). Related to ventail.

noun aventails · aventaile

A curtain or flap of mail, fastened to a helmet, or to a coif (hood) of mail, covering the lower face, neck, and shoulders. […] the hood was increasingly replaced with a mail curtain (the camail or aventail) suspended from the outside of the bascinet, and the bascinet thus augmented gradually replaced the clumsy great helm as the principal defense […]
Similar: camail, ventail
Synonym of ventail (“movable (solid plate) front to a helmet”).
Similar: ventail

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noun adjustable mail protecting the neck

Português	camal
Deutsch	Helmbrünne
Italiano	camaglio
Русский	ба́рмица bármica

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@misc{aventail_2026,
  title = {aventail},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/aventail},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}