Wiktionary
crespine
n. A headdress worn by both men* andwomen, usually made of wire or knitted mesh worn on either side of the head, used to contain the long hair.
Usage examples of "crespine".
There entered a damsel of her own age, perhaps seventeen or eighteen years, her hair corn-yellow, half-encased in a crespine of gold wire.
Her costume was completed with a jeweled torque, an elaborate girdle wrought like a chain of lilies, a crespine headdress of gold wire, and a long veil of silver gauze to flutter over her ink-dyed hair, down her back.