camail


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camail

(ˈkæmeɪl)
n
(Arms & Armour (excluding Firearms)) armour a neck and shoulders covering of mail worn with and laced to the basinet
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Noun1.camail - a medieval hood of mail suspended from a basinet to protect the head and neckcamail - a medieval hood of mail suspended from a basinet to protect the head and neck
aventail, ventail
basinet - a medieval steel helmet
hood - a headdress that protects the head and face
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It would be well that you should doff camail and greaves, Sir Nigel, for, by the black rood!
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The sentence that serves as a "refrain" for the "Ballade chlorotique," whose form represents a nod to Francois Villon, evokes at the outset a poetic if cliched description of twilight: "Mollement drape d'un camail de nuees grises, le crepuscule deroulait ses brumeuses tentures sur la pourpre fondante d'un soleil couchant" (119).
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