camail
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed in the late 1600s from French camail, from Old Occitan capmalh.
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Noun edit
camail (plural camails)
- (historical) A piece of chainmail worn to protect the neck and shoulders, replacing the whole-head coif.
- Synonym: aventail
- 1995, William W. Kibler, Medieval France: An Encyclopedia, Psychology Press, →ISBN, page 126:
- […] 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 […]
- (historical) An ecclesiastical ornament worn by bishops.
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French edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Old French camail, a borrowing from Old Occitan capmalh.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
camail m (plural camails)
Further reading edit
- “camail”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.