Chainmail

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Chainmail close-up.
Chainmail close-up.

Mail, or chainmail, is a type of armour. It is made of small metal rings.

The word mail means the armour material, not the armour made from it. A mail shirt is a hauberk, haubergeon, byrnie. Mail leggings are chausses, mail hoods are coif, and mail mittens aremitons. A mail collar hanging from a helmet is camail or aventail. A mail collar worn around the neck was called a pixane or standard.

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