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- noun Plural form of
ventail .
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Examples
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(And in winter something stirring and extra in the smoke pouring through the fellow's ventails, as if breath were a sign of rage or what would not then have been called steam a signal of spirit) ....
Style in Fiction 2009
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For all that he would not leave; and then Sir Tristram gave him such a buffet upon the helm that he fell up-so-down from his horse, that the blood brast out at the ventails of his helm, and so he lay still likely to be dead.
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He maketh them take off their helmets and lower their ventails, and then kiss one another, afterward he leadeth them to his hermitage.
The High History of the Holy Graal Anonymous 1869
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For all that he would not leave; and then Sir Tristram gave him such a buffet upon the helm that he fell up-so-down from his horse, that the blood brast out at the ventails of his helm, and so he lay still likely to be dead.
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