Crossword-Solution: COIFFE 6 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 14

The helmet, and the "coiffe" beneath it, protected the head; the "ventail" of linked meshes was worn across the lower part of the face, and was attached on each side of the neck to the "coiffe", so that it protected the throat; the greaves covered the legs.

Her _coiffe_ was drawn low upon the forehead and upon the top of the head, was composed of two or three large rolls of muslin that seemed to telescope out of one another, and fell on to the nape.

Although she still wore the _coiffe_ that Breton women discard so seldom, she had learned to dress herself in another way.

Monsieur Yann, have you no memory? What have I done to vex you?” The nasty western breeze blowing in from the street ruffled his hair and the frills of Gaud's _coiffe_, and behind them a door was banged furiously.

Frizzled and coiffe, not a hair was out of order, not a speck lodged on the sleek surface of the blue coat, not a wrinkle crumpled the snowy vest, with its under-relief of delicate pink.