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Depiction of a 13th-century gambeson (Morgan Bible, fol. 10r)A gambeson (similar to the aketon, padded jack, pourpoint, or arming doublet) is a padded defensive jacket, worn as armour separately, or combined with mail or plate armour.
Visors played an important role in Late Medieval and Early Modern literature, allowing for a dramatic reveal of a character's identity. Sir Thomas Malory employs this tactic in Le Morte d'Arthur, wherein a damsel commands a knight she believes is Sir Lancelot to "put up thy visage" only to discover that he is actually Sir Tristam de Lyones.