Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An obsolete spelling of
coif .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- See
coif .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Obsolete form of
coif .
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Examples
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Must glove this hand: and hence, thou sickly quoif!
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Must glove this hand: and hence, thou sickly quoif!
Act I. Scene I. The Second Part of King Henry the Fourth 1914
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I have seen him sometimes in summer, when to hear his people's suits, he would come into the gardens of Paris, clad in a camel's-hair coat, with a sleeveless surcoat of tiretaine, a cloak of black taffety round his neck, his hair well combed and without a quoif, and a white swansdown hat upon his head.
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Her easy air, action, mien, and gesture quite chang'd, from the quoif to the cock'd hat and cavalier in fashion.
The Palmy Days of Nance Oldfield Edward Robins 1902
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And pretty it were to see Cicely in her praiseful and godly-walking youth, as she stood primly clad in her sad-colored gown and long apron, with a quoif or ciffer covering her smooth hair, and a red whittle on her slender shoulders, a-singing in the old New England meeting-house through the long, tedious psalms, which were made longer and more tedious still by the drawling singing and the deacons '"lining."
Sabbath in Puritan New England Alice Morse Earle 1881
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Must glove this hand: and hence, thou sickly quoif!
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