CAMAIL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does camail mean? 

• CAMAIL (noun)
  The noun CAMAIL has 1 sense:

1. a medieval hood of mail suspended from a basinet to protect the head and neck

  Familiarity information: CAMAIL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CAMAIL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A medieval hood of mail suspended from a basinet to protect the head and neck

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

aventail; camail; ventail

Hypernyms ("camail" is a kind of...):

hood (a headdress that protects the head and face)

Holonyms ("camail" is a part of...):

basinet (a medieval steel helmet)

 Context examples 

It would be well that you should doff camail and greaves, Sir Nigel, for, by the black rood! it is like enough that we shall have to swim for it.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The first struck Felton on the target with such force as to split it from side to side, but Sir William's lance crashed through the camail which shielded the Spaniard's throat, and he fell, screaming hoarsely, to the ground.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)