hennin

[ hen-in ]

noun
  1. 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

1
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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How to use hennin in a sentence

  • 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 Costume | Dion Clayton Calthrop
  • He was also the sculptor of the mausoleum of Bishop Antoine de hennin, erected in 1622 in the choir.

  • Wearing a hennin on her head, she was praying on bended knees before a stained-glass window.

    Sentimental Education Vol 1 | Gustave Flaubert
  • The single hennin was often two or three feet in height; the double one perhaps nearly as wide.

    Joan of Arc | Laura E. Richards
  • Her coif was the tall medieval hennin of Plougastel, a flood of lace falling from its summit.