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n. a headdress in the shape of a cone, "steeple" or truncated cone worn by European women of the nobility in medieval times
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The hennin ( ‘cock’ > ) was a headdress in the shape of a cone or "steeple", or truncated cone worn in the late Middle Ages by European women of the nobility. They were most common in Burgundy and France, but also elsewhere, especially at the English courts, and in Northern Europe, Hungary and Poland. They are little seen in Italy. It is unclear what styles the word hennin described at the time, though it is recorded as being used in French in 1428, probably before the conical style appeared. The word does not appear in English until the 19th century. The term is therefore used by some writers on costume for other female head-dresses of the period.
Usage examples of "hennin".
By her own admission, Elder Hennin of Suxonli Village was a world-class villain, and she liked herself this way.
For her own reasons, however, Hennin had distorted these gifts and bent them to her personal will.
A renegade Mayanabi Nomad of considerable rank, Hennin possessed the training to twist anything to her advantage.
Interested in enhancing her own spiritual power base in Suxonli, Hennin had done the unthinkable.
The villagers were an uneducated group for the most part, and Hennin had dazzled them with her brilliance and persuasive logic.
Native ability paired with an accelerated Mayanabi training from her youth now made Elder Hennin a formidable adversary.
For Hennin, Rimble was an excuse to do whatever she pleased to whomever she pleased without guilt or conscience.
Elder Hennin believed herself to be a kind of mediumistic mouthpiece for Rimble.
As far as Hennin was concerned, there could be only one wasp queen from Suxonli Village.
Elder Hennin, who had never liked Kelandris since the moment the child had been brought into the community as a homeless infant, decided the girl must be made into an example.
On top of everything elselosing you and the babyknowing that I had been duped by Hennin scarred my mind.
If someone like Hennin is one of them, then you better do some housecleaning.
When the power got loose and pandemonium erupted at Revel Rock, Hennin was ready for it.
But rather than have Kelandris get lost in the terrible things that happened later that night at the hands of Elder Hennin and Cobeth, he chose to remind Kelandris of the feelings of love he had had for her so long ago.
Then, hundreds of miles from Speakinghast, Elder Hennin let out a ferocious curse.