aile: bâton de perroquet, mât de perroquet, perroquet apprivoisé, perroquet de mer, perroqueter, poisson-perroquet, réciter comme un perroquet, répéter comme un perroquet, vert perroquet
a topgallant sail; a sail placed immediately above the topsail
köken: Uncertain, compare Dutch bramzeil, Swedish bramsegel, German Bramsegel. Possibly derived from obsolete bram or bramme (“brag, boast”), which would correspond semantically with English gallant in the sense "showy, splendid".
A compound whose first element is unclear; it is often supposed that it is brammen but this verb is attested later than bramzeil and may derive from this noun instead. The second element is zeil (“sail”).