Cornette

Not to be confused with the cornet, which may be the hennin or the lappet.
For the French chess grandmaster, see Matthieu Cornette.
For other uses, see Cornette (disambiguation).
A painting of cornette-wearing Sisters of Charity by Armand Gautier (19th-century)
Polish nun wearing a white cornette and habit in 1939

A cornette is a piece of female headwear. It is essentially a type of wimple consisting of a large starched piece of white cloth that is folded upward in such a way as to create the resemblance of horns (French: cornes) on the wearer's head. It remained fashionable for some Parisian ladies around 1800,[1] wearing ones made of muslin or gauze and richly ornamented with lace.

  1. ^ "Parisian Fashions". News. The Times. No. 5002. London. 13 January 1801. p. 3. in fashion among the Ladies of Paris