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A gable hood, English hood or gable headdress is an English woman's headdress of c. 1500–1550, so-called because its pointed shape resembles the gable of a house. The contemporary French hood was rounded in outline.
Originally a simple pointed hood with decorated side panels called lappets and a veil at the back, over time the gable hood became a complex construction stiffened with buckram, with a box-shaped back and two tube-shaped hanging veils at 90-degree angles; the hanging veils and lappets could be pinned up in a variety of ways to make complex headdresses.
Image:Elizabeth_of_York_from_Kings_and_Queens_of_England.jpg|Early gable hood: Elizabeth of York c. 1500
Image:Gablehood front-back c1535 detail.jpg|Front and back views of a box-backed gable hood of c. 1528–30. Detail of a drawing by Holbein
Image:Holbein gable hood eng.jpg|Gable hood with lappets and one side of veil pinned up (engraving after Holbein c. 1535)
Image:Hans Holbein d. J. 033.jpg|Gable hood of c. 1543