Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The hooded or bladder-nosed seal, Cystophora cristata. See cut under
Cystophorinæ . - noun A close head-dress worn by women in the reign of Henry VIII. It was a close cap or bonnet covering the sides of the face.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun See Hooded seal, under
hooded .
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Examples
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She's gone, extinguished -- there she is, under the penitent's hoodcap with eyeholes, before the faggots! and that's what she has married!
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868
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She's gone, extinguished -- there she is, under the penitent's hoodcap with eyeholes, before the faggots! and that's what she has married!
Celt and Saxon — Complete George Meredith 1868
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