hennin
/hen-in/US // ˈhɛn ɪn //
鹤宁,楠木,鹤年,鹤鸣
Definitions
n.名词 noun
- 1
- : 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.
Examples
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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