hennin
[hen-in]
- a conical or heart-shaped hat, sometimes extremely high, with a flowing veil or piece of starched linen about the crown, worn by women in the 15th century.
Origin of hennin
1850–55; < French, Middle French, perhaps < Middle Dutch henninck rooster, from a fancied resemblance of the hat to a rooster's comb
Also called steeple headdress.
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Historical Examples
Her coif was the tall medieval hennin of Plougastel, a flood of lace falling from its summit.
A Childhood in Brittany Eighty Years AgoAnne Douglas Sedgwick
No doubt ladies were just human in those days, and fussed and frittered over an inch or so of hennin, or a yard or two of train.
English CostumeDion Clayton Calthrop
Wearing a hennin on her head, she was praying on bended knees before a stained-glass window.
Sentimental Education Vol 1Gustave Flaubert