ventail

Noun

ven=tail

WORDNET DICTIONARY

ventail(n = noun.artifact) aventail, camail - a medieval hood of mail suspended from a basinet to protect the head and neck;

is a part of basinet

is a kind of hood

ventail, n. [OF. ventaille, F. ventail. See Ventilate, and cf. Aventail.].

That part of a helmet which is intended for the admission of air, -- sometimes in the visor. Spenser. [1913 Webster]

"Her ventail up so high that he descried
Her goodly visage and her beauty's pride." [1913 Webster]