Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A hood; a coif; a cap; a head-covering of various kinds. See hood.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun obsolete A head covering of various kinds; a hood; a coif; a cap.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun obsolete A head covering of various kinds; a hood; a coif; a cap.

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Anglo-Saxon.

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