Definitions for coif

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Spelling: [koif]
IPA: /kɔɪf/

Coif is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 27 anagrams from letters in coif (cfio).

Definitions for coif

noun

  1. a hood-shaped cap, usually of white cloth and with extended sides, worn beneath a veil, as by nuns.
  2. any of various hoodlike caps, varying through the centuries in shape and purpose, worn by men and women.
  3. a cap similar to a skullcap, formerly worn by sergeants at law.
  4. Armor. a covering for the head and neck, made of leather, padded cloth, or mail.
  5. British. the rank or position of a sergeant at law.

verb (used with object)

  1. to cover or dress with or as with a coif.

noun, verb (used with object)

  1. coiffure (defs 1, 3).

Origin of coif

1250-1300; Middle English coyf(e) Anglo-French coife, Old French coiffe Late Latin cofia, cofea headdress, sort of cap West Germanic *kuf(f)ja

Examples for coif

Mother sent me to buy her a coif, and I got this for the money too.

She wore a coif and a lace frilling in the fashion of the Regency.

He recommends Morrison, his valet, as a good man to shave and coif his father.

The coif recalls those seen in the pictures of the ancient Gauls.

The crest is defended by a coif like that used for combat on foot.

The coif can treat better with the cowl than the casque can do.

They thought you were very old, and must be going to coif Saint Catherine.

Next morning at breakfast her mother saw the coif and stared at her.

The Sussex name Quaile represents the Norman pronunciation of coif.

Her hair had fallen loose in her coif, it depended on to her shoulder.

Word Value for coif
Scrable

9

Words with friends

10

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