French hood
A head-dress worn by women in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
| 1541 St. Papers Hen. VIII, I. 695 To the Quenes Grace ye must appoynte six frenche hoods, with thappurtenaunces. a 1553 Udall Royster D. ii. iii. (Arb.) 35 We shall go in our frenche hoodes euery day. 1636 Jackson 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.
| 1568 Durham Depos. (Surtees) 89 A whipe and a cart and a franc hoode, waies me for the, my lasse. |