Meaning of camail | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A piece of chainmail worn to protect the neck and shoulders, replacing the whole-head coif.
   historical
2. An ecclesiastical ornament worn by bishops.
   historical

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 […]”

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