Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In armor, a hood like the camail, attached to the hauberk and drawn at pleasure over the head and steel cap, worn by the Persians during the third and fourth centuries after Christ. A similar hood was worn by the Circassians up to the time of their subjugation by the Russians.

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  • O'er his brow his cap was wrinkled, back was his mail-hood cast,

    The Lay of the Cid ca. 1043-1099 Cid 1071

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