A mail collar hanging from a helmet is camail or aventail.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bath Time: Why Chainmail was invented - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?] Reference

The knight is clad in armour, viz., a spherical bascinet, with a camail of chain-mail.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bell's Cathedrals: The Abbey Church of Tewkesbury with some Account of the Priory Church of Deerhurst Gloucestershire] Reference

But for the Hyrkanian's powerful build and the protection of the camail of ring mail that hung down from his helmet, his neck might have been broken.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conan the Freebooter]

In a glittering whirl of steel the Turanian's scimitar grated around Gleg's blade, and the keen edge cut through the camail and the thick muscles of the Zaporoskan's neck.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conan the Freebooter]

The Cardinal owes its name to the bright red of the feathers, and to a little cowl on the hind part of the head, which resembles that of the bishop's ornament, called a camail.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of Louisisana Or of the Western Parts of Virginia and Carolina: Containing] Reference

Chandos 'quick blade passed through the Frenchman's camail and pierced his throat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sir Nigel] Reference

"How is that, my fair sir?" cried the armorer as he drew the bassinet over the head and fastened it to the camail which extended to the shoulders.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sir Nigel] Reference

He followed him, and exhibited himself to the eyes of the crowd in his purple camail and with his episcopal cross upon his neck, side by side with the criminal bound with cords.    From Wordnik.com.  [Les Misérables] Reference

Nigel was beaten down on to the crupper of his horse by a sweeping blow; but at the same instant Chandos 'quick blade passed through the Frenchman's camail and pierced his throat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sir Nigel]

The young prelate betook himself with so much ardor to his theological studies, that at twenty years of age he was a doctor, and maintained his theses in rochet and camail as bishop-nominate.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 5] Reference

The first struck Felton on the target with such force as to split it from side to side, but Sir William's lance crashed through the camail which shielded the Spaniard's throat, and he fell, screaming hoarsely, to the ground.    From Wordnik.com.  [The White Company]

Marshal Meilleraye drew me along, and so I went out with my rochet and camail, bestowing benedictions right and left; but this occupation did not prevent me from making all the reflections suitable to the difficulty in which I found myself.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 5] Reference

Persons whom he met -- and they were not all of the peasant class -- seeing a traveller jaunty in plumed cap, light blue camail, pointed buskins, and close-fitting hose the color of the camail, sword at his side, and javelin in hand, stayed to observe him long as he was in sight, never dreaming they were permitted to behold a favorite of one of the bloody Mahounds of the East.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Prince of India — Volume 02] Reference

Mademoiselle de Rozieres has found the piece of cloth in question (it was in the camail-carton of Mdlle.    From Wordnik.com.  [Frederic Chopin as a Man and Musician]

It would be well that you should doff camail and greaves, Sir Nigel, for, by the black rood! it is like enough that we shall have to swim for it. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The White Company]

These two prelates wore a camail and rochet.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Court of the Empress Josephine] Reference

Sous mes yeux ombragés du camail de l’étude.    From Wordnik.com.  [La Bouteille a la Mer] Reference