hennin
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- 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 CalthropHe was also the sculptor of the mausoleum of Bishop Antoine de hennin, erected in 1622 in the choir.
Vanished towers and chimes of Flanders | George Wharton EdwardsWearing a hennin on her head, she was praying on bended knees before a stained-glass window.
Sentimental Education Vol 1 | Gustave FlaubertThe single hennin was often two or three feet in height; the double one perhaps nearly as wide.
Joan of Arc | Laura E. RichardsHer coif was the tall medieval hennin of Plougastel, a flood of lace falling from its summit.
A Childhood in Brittany Eighty Years Ago | Anne Douglas Sedgwick
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