hennin

• “The hennin is the big conehead style everyone imagines when thinking of”

  When Were Women’s Hats in Fashion? « Colleen Anderson

• “My daughter had once taken a course in costume design so she knew that "a hennin is a tall, conical or heart-shaped hat sometimes worn with a flowing veil.”

  The Union - All Categories

• “A form of hennin. fairytale princesses but had a relatively short life and also had many variations.”

  When Were Women’s Hats in Fashion? « Colleen Anderson

• “Quickly she fashioned a suitable maid-of-honor dress, complete with a dainty little hennin-a long conical hat with a bit of material descending from it.”

  Harpy Thyme

• “Only when she reached the end of the long avenue and circled around among the squat black tents of the humbler folk did she succumb at last to temptation in the shape of a goblinesque little maiden with thick blonde braids and a pert scarlet hennin, who offered flagons of carved myrtlewood filled with a marvelous perfume distilled from forest flowers.”

  The Golden Torc

• “Her coif was the tall medieval hennin of Plougastel, a flood of lace falling from its summit.”

  A Childhood in Brittany Eighty Years Ago

• “Her softly rounded face looked absurdly childlike under the tall-crowned hennin, from which a wispy veil floated behind her as she moved.”

  The Historical Nights' Entertainment First Series

• “Doubtless you're that girl that's been hanging up the new window-blinds that won't roll, and disguising the pillows with clean slips, and hennin 'round among my books and papers on the table here, and aging me generally till I don't know my own handwriting by the time I find it!”

  The Complete Works of James Whitcomb Riley, Volume 10

• “On her head is the muslin-draped and high-peaked "hennin.”

  Illuminated Manuscripts

• “Sometimes there was a wry little aside to leaven the mix, such as a comment about the unflattering effect of the fashionable ultra-short men’s coat on a middle-aged courtier of ample girth, or the tendency of a two-foot steeple hennin those tall cone-shaped head-dresses worn by great ladies at the time to poke people in the eye.”

  Daughter of York, by Anne Easter Smith. Book review.

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