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

  • 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

  • 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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