vervelle

English

Vervelles on a German bascinet helmet from 1325.

Etymology

Borrowed from French vervelle.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vɜɹˈvɛl/

Noun

vervelle (plural vervelles)

1. (historical) A rivet containing a hole, or a staple, on a medieval helmet, by which a camail was attached (or rarely, on another piece of armor, by which e.g. a lance rest was attached).
   • 1847, Charles Boutell, Monumental Brasses and Slabs: An Historical and Descriptive Notice of the Incised Monumental Memorials of the Middle Ages : with Numerous Illustrations, page 49:

     ... covering the neck and shoulders like a tippet; the camail was attached to the bascinet by a lace drawn through vervelles or small staples; in some examples this arrangement is distinctly exhibited, but in others the vervelles are ...

   • 2010, Noel Fallows, Jousting in Medieval and Renaissance Iberia, Boydell Press, →ISBN:

     [page 4:] And they should likewise check that they have not sharpened the vervelles of the cervellieres.
     [page 84:] The vervelles, or staples, were arranged vertically on the right-hand side of the breastplate as can clearly be seen on Real Armería reinforcing breastplate e59 and the Avant armour (figs. 26 and 17); the bracket of the lance-rest was then secured to the vervelles with a retaining pin.

   • 2018, Douglas Strong, Surviving Examples of Early Plate Armour (1300-1430): Volume I: Bascinets, ISD LLC, →ISBN, page 261:

     The bascinet is of unusually tall form, and the wearer must have had a long neck, which is an argument against the helm having been made for Joan of Arc. […] The bascinet also retains all of its original vervelles.

   • 2021, Charles John Ffoulkes, The armourer and his craft from the XIth to the XVIth century, Good Press:

     The Camail, or tippet of mail, which is the distinctive detail of the armour of the late fourteenth and early fifteenth century, was either hung from a flat plate of metal which was fitted over the vervelles or staples on the bascinet ...

Translations

Translations

• French: vervelle (fr) f

Dutch

Verb

vervelle

1. (dated or formal) singular present subjunctive of vervellen

French

Pronunciation

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Noun

vervelle f (plural vervelles)

1. vervelle

Further reading

• “vervelle”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.