aventail

2 definitions found

aventail - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Aventail \Av"en*tail\, n. [OF. esventail. Cf. Ventail.]
     The movable front to a helmet; the ventail.
     [1913 Webster]

aventail - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  aventail
      n 1: a medieval hood of mail suspended from a basinet to protect
           the head and neck [syn: camail, aventail, ventail]