aventail

English

Alternative forms

• aventaile

Etymology

From Middle English aventayle, from Old French esventail (“air-hole”), from esventer (Modern French éventer), from Latin ex (“out”) + ventus (“wind”).

Noun

aventail (plural aventails)

1. (chain mail armour) The flap or adjustable part of the hood of mail, which when unfastened allowed the hood to drop upon the shoulders.
2. (solid armour) The movable front to a helmet; the ventail.

Translations

adjustable mail protecting the neck

• Catalan: collar (ca) m
• German: Helmbrünne f
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• Italian: camaglio m
• Portuguese: camal (pt) m

References

• “aventail”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney and Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1914), “aventail”, in The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language, revised edition, volumes I (A–C), New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

Anagrams

• alvanite, valentia, vanalite