Definitions for ventails

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ventails ven·tail

Spelling: [ven-teyl]

IPA: /ˈvɛn teɪl/

Ventails is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 520 anagrams from letters in ventails (aeilnstv).

Definitions for ventails

noun

1. the pivoted middle element of a face defense of a close helmet.
2. a flap of mail attached to a coif and fastened across the lower part of the face during combat.

Origin of ventails

1300-50; Middle English Middle French ventaille, equivalent to vent (Latin ventus wind¹) + -aille -al²

Examples for ventails

It has a tilting helmet with visor in two pieces, and a shutter in the ventail; the leg-armour is still complete.

She puts on his hauberk with its strong meshes, and laces on his ventail.

The upper part is the visor, to admit of vision, the lower the ventail, to admit of breathing.

The ventail bris dates from the period of the first introduction of the folded fan into Europe.

The other drags him by the helmet, tearing all the fastening, and he strikes from his head the ventail and the gleaming coif.

I fail to see why; the weapon that pierced a ventail would pass into the head, and inflict a death-wound.