Definitions for camails

camails ca·mail

Spelling: [kuh-meyl]
IPA: /kəˈmeɪl/

Camails is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 199 anagrams from letters in camails (aacilms).

Definitions for camails

noun

  1. aventail (def 1).

Origin of camails

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

Examples for camails

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Word Value for camails
Scrable

10

Words with friends

13

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