dismail
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old French desmailler.
Verb[edit]
dismail (third-person singular simple present dismails, present participle dismailing, simple past and past participle dismailed)
- (archaic) To remove the chainmail or armour from (someone).
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 30, page 265:
- Their mightie ſtrokes their haberieons diſmayld, / And naked made each others manly ſpalles; […]