"Coif" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... bit her lip in charming confusion; while an abbess, with face serene in the frame of her snowy coif, caught up ...
— The Day of Days - An Extravaganza • Louis Joseph Vance
... crush hat, opera hat; kaffiyeh; sombrero, jam, tam-o-shanter, tarboosh[obs3], topi, sola topi[Lat], pagri[obs3], puggaree[obs3]; cap, hat, beaver hat, coonskin cap; castor, bonnet, tile, wideawake, billycock[obs3], wimple; nightcap, mobcap[obs3], skullcap; hood, coif; capote[obs3], calash; kerchief, snood, babushka; head, coiffure; crown &c. (circle) 247; chignon, pelt, wig, front, peruke, periwig, caftan, turban, fez, shako, csako[obs3], busby; kepi[obs3], forage cap, bearskin; baseball cap; fishing hat; helmet &c. 717; mask, ...
— Roget's Thesaurus
... were rewarded at last by the appearance of a very old woman in a peaked hat and coif, apparently on ...
— The Panchronicon • Harold Steele Mackaye
... as becomes the Frau Freiherrinn," said the housewife aunt, looking with concern at the coarse texture of her black sleeve. "I long to see our own lady ruffle it in her new gear. I am glad that the lofty pointed cap has passed out; the coif becomes my child far better, and I see our tastes still ...
— The Dove in the Eagle's Nest • Charlotte M. Yonge
... head, which nodded with self-importance; the features, in which an irritable peevishness, acquired by habit and indulgence, strove with a temper naturally affectionate and good-natured; the coif; the apron; the blue-checked gown,—were all those of old Ailie; but laced pinners, hastily put on to meet the stranger, with some other trifling articles of decoration, marked the difference between ...
— Old Mortality, Complete, Illustrated • Sir Walter Scott
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