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medieval chainmail's neck scarf, because losing your throat was the era's deadliest fashion faux pas
means The aventail is a curtain of chainmail attached to the lower edge of a helmet, hanging down to protect the neck, throat, and shoulders.
from From Old French esventail, meaning an air-hole or vent — a relative of the modern "ventail," both tracing back to Latin ventus, "wind." The name nods to the gap left at the face for breathing, the breeze let in where the chainmail stopped. So a word for letting air in came to name the very thing guarding the throat that drew it.
- attached to
- laced onto a helmet's lower edge
- era
- flourished in the 14th century
- name origin
- from old french for facing the wind
- protects
- neck, shoulders, throat from slashes
- also called
- a camail in some texts
henry viii armor — royal almain armor at tower of london features a mail aventail protecting the neck, circa 1520
templar knight armor — 13th century crusader mail aventails hung from bascinets to defend the vulnerable neck area