ventail

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1)  The movable front part of a medieval helmet, originally including the visor but later specifically the separate lower section.
 * 2) * 1796, Legrand (cit.), Fabliaux Or Tales, Abridged from French Manuscripts of the XIIth and XIIIth Centuries, page 203:
 * The helmet, in its improved state, was composed of two parts; the headpiece, which was strengthened within by several circles of iron; and the visor or ventail, which (as the names imply) was a sort of grating to see or breathe through, so contrived as by sliding in a groove, or turning on a pivot, to be raised or lowered
 * 1) * 1937,, In Parenthesis, Part 7:
 * no ventaille to this darkening / and masked face lifts to grope the air […].
 * 1)  A vent or breathing-hole in a medieval helmet, for the admission of air.
 * 2) * 1969, John Skelton, Clarendon Medieval and Tudor Series: John Skelton: Poems, Clarendon Medieval and Tudor, page 187:
 * 398. ventayles : a pun on ventails, 'something acting as a sail or fan', and ventails, the air holes or vents in the vizor of a helmet.
 * 1)  The movable front part of a medieval helmet, originally including the visor but later specifically the separate lower section.
 * 2) * 1796, Legrand (cit.), Fabliaux Or Tales, Abridged from French Manuscripts of the XIIth and XIIIth Centuries, page 203:
 * The helmet, in its improved state, was composed of two parts; the headpiece, which was strengthened within by several circles of iron; and the visor or ventail, which (as the names imply) was a sort of grating to see or breathe through, so contrived as by sliding in a groove, or turning on a pivot, to be raised or lowered
 * 1) * 1937,, In Parenthesis, Part 7:
 * no ventaille to this darkening / and masked face lifts to grope the air […].
 * 1)  A vent or breathing-hole in a medieval helmet, for the admission of air.
 * 2) * 1969, John Skelton, Clarendon Medieval and Tudor Series: John Skelton: Poems, Clarendon Medieval and Tudor, page 187:
 * 398. ventayles : a pun on ventails, 'something acting as a sail or fan', and ventails, the air holes or vents in the vizor of a helmet.
 * no ventaille to this darkening / and masked face lifts to grope the air […].
 * 1)  A vent or breathing-hole in a medieval helmet, for the admission of air.
 * 2) * 1969, John Skelton, Clarendon Medieval and Tudor Series: John Skelton: Poems, Clarendon Medieval and Tudor, page 187:
 * 398. ventayles : a pun on ventails, 'something acting as a sail or fan', and ventails, the air holes or vents in the vizor of a helmet.
 * 398. ventayles : a pun on ventails, 'something acting as a sail or fan', and ventails, the air holes or vents in the vizor of a helmet.