camail

"Why are you stripping off your casque and camail, Sir Richard?" asked the Count.

The final step was the discarding of the “camail” and the introduction of the “armet.”

But there were many knights who still fought with the great helm covering basinet and camail, a fact which speaks eloquently of the mighty blows given in this warlike age.

On his black and wavy hair he carries, half-drawn to one side, a scarlet camail, the tippet of which falls upon and covers his wide shoulders.

There are still traces of colour on this monument and gold remains on the points of the cap to which the camail is fastened, as also on the jewelled sword-belt.