Definitions for camail

camail ca·mail

Spelling: [kuh-meyl]
IPA: /kəˈmeɪl/

Camail is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 89 anagrams from letters in camail (aacilm).

Definitions for camail

noun

  1. aventail (def 1).

Origin of camail

1660-70; French Old Provençal capmalh, equivalent to cap head (see chief) + malh mail2

Examples for camail

Her petticoat was very short, lightly puffed on the sides, and ornamented only with two very long pockets trimmed like the camail.

Like his brother-in-arms, at Puig, he wears the camail and hauberk.

The jupon was a garment which covered the body from the camail to just above the knees.

The Bassinet with camail attached is not a characteristic of this century, though isolated examples may perhaps be found.

The sculptured effigy of the Black Prince on his tomb at Canterbury is a typical representation of a knight of the camail period.

This is called the camail period because by this time the custom of wearing the camail had become universal.

In the preceding chapter we noticed the method of attaching the camail to the bascinet.

In these brasses we find that the camail has become the Standard of Mail, or collarette, worn under the gorget of plate.

The knight is clad in armour, viz., a spherical bascinet, with a camail of chain-mail.

A high collar of steel was next added as a substitute for the camail.

Word Value for camail
Scrable

10

Words with friends

13

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