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2. Escoffion - Wikipedia

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   Alternatively, the headdress was worn over a wimple or caul, simple pieces of cloth which kept the wearer's hair out of sight and provided a base for the larger headdress to attach on to. [4] The covering of hair, sometimes called a bongrace , was a common custom amongst women of the Middle Ages , and continued to be a prominent feature in ...

3. Wimple - Wikipedia

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   A wimple is a medieval form of female headcovering, formed of a large piece of cloth worn draped around the neck and chin, covering the top of the head; it was usually made from white linen or silk. Its use developed in early medieval Europe; in medieval Christianity it was unseemly for a married woman to show her hair. A wimple might be ...

4. Hennin - Wikipedia

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   A conical hennin with black velvet lappets (brim) and a sheer veil, 1485–90. The hennin (French: hennin / ˈ h ɛ n ɪ n /; [1] possibly from Flemish Dutch: henninck meaning cock or rooster) [N 1] was a headdress in the shape of a cone, steeple, or truncated cone worn in the Late Middle Ages by European women of the nobility. [2]

5. List of headgear - Wikipedia

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   Sheitel is a wig worn by some married women in order to maintain marital modesty in public; Shtreimel; Spodik; Gargush; Sudra (סודרא) is a headdress, similar to the keffiyah worn by Jewish men in the ancient near-east.

6. Gable hood - Wikipedia

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   Gable hood with pinned-up lappets and a hanging veil. Mary, Lady Guildford, by Hans Holbein the Younger, 1527.. A gable hood, English hood or gable headdress is an English woman's headdress of c. 1500–1550, so called because its pointed shape resembles the architectural feature of the same name.

7. Caul (headgear) - Wikipedia

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   These headdresses were shaped like bags, made of gold, silver or silk network. At first they fitted fairly close to the head, the edge, band or rim being placed high up on the forehead, to show some hair on the temples and around the nape; they enclosed the head and hair, and were secured by a circlet or fillet. Jewels were often set at ...