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AVENTAIL, or AVANTAILLE (O. Fr. esventail, presumably from a Latin word exventaculum, air-hole)

AVENTAIL, or AVANTAILLE (O. Fr. esventail, presumably from a Latin word exventaculum, See also:
AIR (from an Indo-European root meaning " breathe," " blow ")
AIR, or ASBEN
air-hole) , the See also:

MOUTHPIECE (Fr. embouchure; Ger. Mundstuck; Ital. bocchino)

mouthpiece of an old-fashioned See also:

HELMET (from an obsolete diminutive of O. Fr. helme, mod. heaume; the English word is " helm," as in O. Eng., Dutch and Ger.; all are from the Teutonic base hal-, pre-Teut. kal-, to cover; cf. Lat. celare, to hide, Eng. " hell," &c.)

helmet, movable to admit the See also:

air .

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