The hennin is the big conehead style everyone imagines when thinking of. From Wordnik.com. [When Were Women’s Hats in Fashion? « Colleen Anderson] Reference
My daughter had once taken a course in costume design so she knew that "a hennin is a tall, conical or heart-shaped hat sometimes worn with a flowing veil.". From Wordnik.com. [The Union - All Categories] Reference
A form of hennin. fairytale princesses but had a relatively short life and also had many variations. From Wordnik.com. [When Were Women’s Hats in Fashion? « Colleen Anderson] Reference
Quickly she fashioned a suitable maid-of-honor dress, complete with a dainty little hennin-a long conical hat with a bit of material descending from it. From Wordnik.com. [Harpy Thyme]
On her head is the muslin-draped and high-peaked "hennin.". From Wordnik.com. [Illuminated Manuscripts] Reference
Her coif was the tall medieval hennin of Plougastel, a flood of lace falling from its summit. From Wordnik.com. [A Childhood in Brittany Eighty Years Ago] Reference
Her softly rounded face looked absurdly childlike under the tall-crowned hennin, from which a wispy veil floated behind her as she moved. From Wordnik.com. [The Historical Nights' Entertainment First Series] Reference
Doubtless you're that girl that's been hanging up the new window-blinds that won't roll, and disguising the pillows with clean slips, and hennin 'round among my books and papers on the table here, and aging me generally till I don't know my own handwriting by the time I find it!. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Works of James Whitcomb Riley, Volume 10] Reference
"What in the world is a hennin?". From Wordnik.com. [The Union - All Categories] Reference
He faltered on the word, "hennin.". From Wordnik.com. [The Union - All Categories] Reference
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