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Meaning of aventail | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2
ˈævənteɪl

Definitions

  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.
  2. Synonym of ventail (“movable (solid plate) front to a helmet”).

Equivalents

Català collar
Deutsch Helmbrünne
Italiano camaglio
Português camal

Examples

“[…] 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 […]”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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See also

Aventine Aventine Hill Aventura aventure aventurescence aventurin

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