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aventails

aventails is the plural of aventail.

Meaning of aventail

Noun

aventail (plural aventails)

  1. 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 […]1995, William W. Kibler, Medieval France: An Encyclopedia, Psychology Press, →ISBN, page 126
    Synonyms:
    camail, ventail
  2. Synonym of ventail (“movable (solid plate) front to a helmet”).
    Synonyms:
    ventail

Questions about aventails

What is aventails the plural of?
Aventails is the plural of aventail.

Words near aventails in the dictionary

  1. avenses
  2. Avent
  3. aventail
  4. aventaile
  5. aventailes
  6. aventails
  7. Aventine
  8. Aventine Hill
  9. Aventines
  10. aventre
  11. aventred

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