Definitions for hennin

hennin hen·nin

Spelling: [hen-in]
IPA: /ˈhɛn ɪn/

Hennin is a 6 letter English word.

You can make 27 anagrams from letters in hennin (ehinnn).

Definitions for hennin

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.

Origin of hennin

1850-55; French, Middle French, perhaps Middle Dutch henninck rooster, from a fancied resemblance of the hat to a rooster's comb

Examples for hennin

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

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.

Wearing a hennin on her head, she was praying on bended knees before a stained-glass window.

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