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2. Mantilla - Wikipedia

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   In Spain, women still wear mantillas during Holy Week (the week leading to Easter), bullfights and weddings. Also a black mantilla is traditionally worn when a woman has an audience with the Pope and a white mantilla is appropriate for a church wedding, but can be worn at other ceremony occasions as well.

3. Head covering for Christian women - Wikipedia

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   Christian head covering, also known as Christian veiling, is the traditional practice of women covering their head in a variety of Christian denominations.Some Christian women wear the head covering in public worship and during private prayer at home, [1] [2] [3] while others (esp. Conservative Anabaptists) believe women should wear head coverings at all times. [4]

4. Veil - Wikipedia

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   Veils also protected women against the evil eye, it was thought. [9] A veil called flammeum was the most prominent feature of the costume worn by the bride at Roman weddings. [10] The veil was a deep yellow color reminiscent of a candle flame.

5. Headscarf - Wikipedia

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   Women's headscarves for sale in Damascus In Christian cultures, nuns cover their bodies and hair. Here is an example of a 16th-century wimple, worn by a widowed Queen Anna of Poland, with a veil and a ruff around the neck. A headscarf is a scarf covering most or all of the top of a person's, usually women's, hair and head, leaving the face ...

6. Hanging veil - Wikipedia

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   Hanging veils and scarves must cover at least from the crown of the head to the bottom of the hair bun. [ 5 ] Women who headcover with the hanging veil wear it throughout the day, with the exception of sleeping, based on Saint Paul 's dictum that Christians are to "pray without ceasing", Saint Paul's teaching that women being unveiled is ...

7. Category:Veils - Wikipedia

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   Articles relating to veils, articles of clothing or hanging cloths that are intended to cover some part of the head or face, or objects of some significance. Veiling has a long history in European, Asian, and African societies. The practice has been prominent in different forms in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. The practice of veiling is ...

8. Kapp (headcovering) - Wikipedia

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   A mother wearing a kapp. A kapp (/kɒp/, Pennsylvania German from German Kappe meaning cap, cover, hood) is a Christian headcovering worn by many women of certain Anabaptist Christian denominations (especially among Amish, Mennonites, Schwarzenau Brethren and River Brethren of the Old Order Anabaptist and Conservative Anabaptist traditions), as well as certain Conservative Friends and Plain ...

9. Privilège du blanc - Wikipedia

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   Queen Elena of Italy and Crown Princess Marie-José wearing white garments in the presence of Pope Pius XII at the Quirinal Palace on 27 December 1939.. Le privilège du blanc (pronounced [lə pʁivilɛʒ dy blɑ̃]; "the privilege of the white") is a custom of the Catholic Church that permits certain designated female royalty to wear white clothing (traditionally a white dress and white veil ...