camail

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camail

/kəˈmeɪl/
/ˈkæm.eɪl/

Rhymes with -eɪl

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Borrowed in the late 1600s from French camail, from Old Occitan capmalh.

noun camails

historical A piece of chainmail worn to protect the neck and shoulders, replacing the whole-head coif. […] 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: aventail
historical An ecclesiastical ornament worn by bishops.

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@misc{camail_2026,
  title = {camail},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/camail},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}