aventail

[ av-uhn-teyl ]

nounArmor.
  1. Also called camail. a mail tippet suspended from the lower edges of a 14th-century basinet as a protection for the neck, throat, and shoulders.

Origin of aventail

1
1300–50; Middle English <Anglo-French aventaille, equivalent to a- (< ?) + ventailleventail

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