Usually means: Flexible armor piece covering throat.
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General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. ventail: Merriam-Webster
  2. ventail: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. ventail: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. ventail: Collins English Dictionary
  5. ventail: Vocabulary.com
  6. ventail: Wordnik
  7. ventail: Wiktionary
  8. ventail: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. ventail: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. ventail: Dictionary.com
  11. Ventail: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. ventail: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. ventail: Rhymezone
  14. Ventail: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. ventail: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  16. ventail: FreeDictionary.org
  17. ventail: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. ventail: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. An Illustrated Dictionary of Jewelry (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Arms and Armour (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (ventail)

noun:  (historical) Synonym of aventail (“mail curtain or flap, on a helmet or a mail coif, that protects the lower face and neck”)
noun:  (historical) The movable front part of a medieval helmet, originally including the visor but later specifically the separate lower section.
noun:  (historical, rare) A vent or breathing-hole in a medieval helmet, for the admission of air.

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