aventail

== English == === Alternative forms === aventaile === Etymology === From Middle English aventayle, from Old French esventail (“air-hole”), from esventer (Modern French éventer), from Latin ex (“out”) + ventus (“wind”). Related to ventail. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈævənteɪl/ === Noun === aventail (plural aventails) A curtain or flap of mail, fastened to a helmet, or to a coif (hood) of mail, covering the lower face, neck, and shoulders. Synonyms: camail, ventail (“piece of chainmail”) Synonym of ventail (“movable (solid plate) front to a helmet”). ==== Translations ==== === References === “aventail”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. William Dwight Whitney and Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1914), “aventail”, in The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language, revised edition, volumes I (A–C), New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC. === Anagrams === alvanite, valentia, vanalite