What is "coifs"

Usage examples of "coifs".

Beatrice and Berenice had discarded their coifs, revealing topaz-hued locks, and belted their gowns closely, revealing marvelous shapes.

Beside Hancock stood Alex, with his arm around Julie, who looked exquisite in her black mourning, her hair drawn severely back from her pale face, revealing to all the world that her features had never needed fancy coifs or other adornments.

The other women all had hair upswept, off the neck, not unlike the manner in which she'd worn hers always before this, except their coifs were shaped in a different way, more like a great heart with fancy curls.

Basinets were doffed, coifs thrown back on mailed shoulders, belts let out.

The mail coifs and shoulder protectors alone contained hundreds of hand-fashioned rings, involving months of work.

Like the Legend Riders they wore elaborate chain-mail hauberks, coifs and gorgets.

Nuns with whitewashed faces, cool coifs and their rosaries going up and down, vindictive too for what they can't get.

How more than fair the sunburnt wenches looked, In their rough, homespun gowns and coifs demure, After the beauty of bare, rosy limbs, And odorous, loose hair!