Mail

• Mail is historically related to Iron.

  Meyrick’s armour catalogue seats mail among iron ring-work for body and coif. A named mail beside iron as ordinary ring metal, not plate armour and not a postal letter.

  from Samuel Rush Meyrick · A Critical Inquiry into Antient Armour, 1824

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European folklore

• Mail armor is historically related to Mail.

  Meyrick’s Inquiry seats mail armour among defences of interlinked iron rings — the class speech of European mail. A named mail-armor in that antient-armour speech, not a hauberk as one shirt form alone and not a brigandine of plates.

  from Samuel Rush Meyrick · A Critical Inquiry into Antient Armour, 1824

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• Mail coif is historically related to Mail.

  Meyrick’s Inquiry seats the mail coif among hoods of interlinked rings worn under or with the helm. A named mail-coif in that antient-armour speech, not an aventail hanging curtain alone and not a solid steel helmet.

  from Samuel Rush Meyrick · A Critical Inquiry into Antient Armour, 1824

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• Aventail is historically related to Mail.

  Meyrick’s Inquiry seats the aventail among mail curtains hung from the bascinet or kindred helm to guard the throat. A named aventail in that antient-armour speech, not a separate mail-coif hood alone and not a steel gorget.

  from Samuel Rush Meyrick · A Critical Inquiry into Antient Armour, 1824

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