aventailとは 意味・読み方・使い方

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• aventaile

語源

From Middle English aventayle, from Old French esventail (“air-hole”), from esventer (Modern French éventer), from Latin ex (“out”) + ventus (“wind”). Related to ventail.

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈævənteɪl/

名詞

aventail (複数形 aventails)

1. A curtain or flap of chainmail, fastened to a helmet, or to a coif (hood) of mail, covering the lower face, neck, and shoulders.

   Synonyms: camail, ventail (“piece of chainmail”)

   • 1995, William W. Kibler, Medieval France: An Encyclopedia, Psychology Press (→ISBN), page 126:

     […] the hood was increasingly replaced with a mail curtain (the camail または aventail) suspended from the outside of the bascinet, and the bascinet thus augmented gradually replaced the clumsy great helm as the principal defense […]

2. Synonym of ventail (“movable (solid plate) front to a helmet”).