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aventail
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun aventail has 1 sense
- aventail(n = noun.artifact) camail, ventail - a medieval hood of mail suspended from a basinet to protect the head and neck; Array is a part of basinet
is a kind of hood
CIDE DICTIONARY
aventail, n. [OF. esventail. Cf. Ventail.].
The movable front to a helmet; the ventail. [1913 Webster]
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