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French hood
A head-dress worn by women in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
1541St. Papers Hen. VIII, I. 695 To the Quenes Grace ye must appoynte six frenche hoods, with thappurtenaunces. a1553Udall Royster D. ii. iii. (Arb.) 35 We shall go in our frenche hoodes euery day. 1636Jackson in Hygiasticon To Translator, For these loose times, when a strict sparing food More's out of fashion then an old French hood.
b. ? A head-dress worn by women when punished for unchastity.
1568Durham Depos. (Surtees) 89 A whipe and a cart and a franc hoode, waies me for the, my lasse. |