Aventail
Also called camail. a mail tippet suspended from the lower edges of a 14th-century basinet as a protection for the neck, throat, and shoulders.
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- Aventurine
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a wide street or main thoroughfare. a means of access or attainment: avenues of escape; avenues to greater power. a way or means of entering into or approaching a place: the various avenues to India. Chiefly British. a wide, usually tree-lined road, path, driveway, etc., through grounds to a country house or monumental building. a […]
- Avenzoar
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- Aver
to assert or affirm with confidence; declare in a positive or peremptory manner. Law. to allege as a fact. Historical Examples He was at the moment a graceful and silencing rebuke to those who aver that manner and attire be interdependent. The Spenders Harry Leon Wilson But doth he aver that his people were used […]