camail — ozdic

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noun

1

A piece of chainmail worn to protect the neck and shoulders, replacing the whole-head coif.

[…] 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 […]

2

An ecclesiastical ornament worn by bishops.

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noun — a medieval hood of mail suspended from a basinet to protect

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[…] 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

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