calotte
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How to use calotte in a sentence
The familiar, mocking, and rather concentrated expression, and the little calotte itself is not hidden.
Charles Baudelaire, His Life | Thophile GautierA blond forming a fanchon on the calotte is laid also under the other edge of the ornament.
Brantôme says a calle or calotte is "a cap," hence the phrase, Plattes comme des calles.
Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol 1 | The Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D.He has on a calotte, and a robe bordered with fur, attached in front with a single button.
Rembrandt and His Works | John BurnetThe Bust of a Man, seen in a front view, having on a cap in the shape of a calotte, and a mantle bordered with carmine.
Rembrandt and His Works | John Burnet
British Dictionary definitions for calotte
/ (kəˈlɒt) /
a skullcap worn by Roman Catholic clergy
architect a concavity in the form of a niche or cup, serving to reduce the apparent height of an alcove or chapel
Origin of calotte
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