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hennin
[ hen-in ]
noun
- 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.
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Origin of hennin1
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Example Sentences
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.
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.
The single hennin was often two or three feet in height; the double one perhaps nearly as wide.
Her coif was the tall medieval hennin of Plougastel, a flood of lace falling from its summit.
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