[…] 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 […]
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Aventail
//ˈævənteɪl//
Synonyms for "aventail" (3 found)
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4 translations across 4 languages.
Catalan
1 entries- collar noun (adjustable mail protecting the neck)
German
1 entries- Helmbrünne noun (adjustable mail protecting the neck)
Italian
1 entries- camaglio noun (adjustable mail protecting the neck)
Portuguese
1 entries- camal noun (adjustable mail protecting the neck)
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