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单词 ventail
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ventailn.

Forms: α. Middle English–1500s (1800s) ventayle, Middle English ventayll(e, ventayl; Middle English–1500s (1800s) ventaile, Middle English–1500s ventale, Middle English ventaill (1800s ventaille), Middle English, 1800s ventail (Middle English Scottish wen-). β. Middle English ventalle, Middle English–1500s ventall, 1500s vental.
Etymology: < Old French ventaille, -taile, ventalle (modern French ventail (masculine), = Old Provençal ventalha , Italian ventaglia ), < vent wind, air. Hence also Middle High German vin- , finteile , vintale . A purely English variant is aventail n.As the sense of ‘breathing-place’ appears to be inapplicable to the earliest use of the word (see sense 1) in French and English, the name may originally have been given to the piece of armour from a real or fancied resemblance to some other article so designated. Other senses of the Old French word (and of the related forms ventele, ventail, and vental) are fan, vane (of a windmill), sluice, shutter, leaf (of a folding door or picture). In Old French romances the ventaille is frequently mentioned as covering the heart or breast: compare Chaucer Clerk's Tale 1148.
Now Historical.
1. A piece of armour protecting the neck, upon which the helmet fitted; a neck-piece. Obsolete.
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α.
a1330 Roland & V. 863 His ventail he gan vn-lace & smot of his heued in þe place.
c1330 (?a1300) Guy of Warwick (Auch.) p. 454 His helme was of so michel miȝt, Was neuer man ouer-comen in fiȝt Þat hadde it on his ventayle.
a1400 Sir Perc. 1722 He hitt hym evene one the nekk-bane, Thurgh ventale and pesane.
c1400 Laud Troy Bk. 14375 Her helmes were on her ventayles sperde.
a1450 (c1410) H. Lovelich Hist. Holy Grail xiv. l. 33 Helmes, hawberkes, & ventaylles Also, Alle to the Grownde he dyde hem go.
β. a1400 Sqr. lowe Degre 222 Your basenette shall be burnysshed bryght, Your ventall shalbe well dyght, With starres of gold it shall be set.
2.
a. The lower movable part of the front of a helmet, as distinct from the vizor; latterly, the whole movable part including the vizor.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > armour > helmet > [noun] > aventail
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c1400 Anturs of Arth. xxxii Then he auaylet vppe his viserne fro his ventalle.
1508 Golagros & Gawane (Chepman & Myllar) sig. cii* He braidit vp his ventaill That closit wes clene.
c1515 Ld. Berners tr. Bk. Duke Huon of Burdeux (1882–7) cxxiv. 448 Vnder the ventayle of his helme the terys of water fell downe fro his eyen.
c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 7030 The duke with a dynt derit hym agayn, Þat the viser & the ventaile voidet hym fro.
1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene iii. ii. sig. Dd2 Through whose bright ventayle..His manly face..Lookt foorth.
1600 E. Fairfax tr. T. Tasso Godfrey of Bulloigne vi. xxvi. 98 He ventall vp so hie, that he descride Her goodly visage, and her beauties pride.
1802 C. James New Mil. Dict. Ventail, that part of a helmet which is made to lift up.
1865 J. K. James tr. T. Tasso Jerusalem Deliv. xx. xii Thro' the barred ventayle his flushed features shone.
1869 C. Boutell tr. J. P. Lacombe Arms & Armour viii. 127 This piece, called the mesail, or mursail..but more generally known in England as the ventaile, or visor, was pierced for both sight and breathing.]
1906 S. Heath Effigies in Dorset 10 Some~times with a movable ‘ventaille’ or visor.
b. One of the vents or air-holes of this. Obsolete. rare.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > armour > helmet > [noun] > aventail > breathing-hole
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1470–85 T. Malory Morte d'Arthur x. lx. 516 The blood brast oute at the ventayls of his helme.
3. Something acting as a sail or fan. Obsolete.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > mills > [noun] > windmill > sail
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a1529 J. Skelton Colyn Cloute (?1545) sig. B.iiv [The nuns] Must cast vp theyr blacke vayles And set vp theyr fucke sayles To catch wynde wt their ventales.
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