A head-dress worn by women in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
1541. St. Papers Hen. VIII., I. 695. To the Quenes Grace ye must appoynte six frenche hoods, with thappurtenaunces.
a. 1553. Udall, Royster D., II. iii. (Arb.), 35.
| And we shall go in our frenche hoodes euery day, | |
| In our silke cassocks (I warrant you) freshe and gay. |
1636. Jackson, in Hygiasticon, To Translator.
| For these loose times, when a strict sparing food | |
| More’s out of fashion then an old French hood. |
b. ? A head-dress worn by women when punished for unchastity.
1568. Durham Depositions (Surtees), 89. Hyte hoore, a whipe and a cart and a franc hoode, waies me for the, my lasse.
1615. Overbury, Char., Common Lawyer (1856), 85. But now being enabled to speake in proper person, hee talkes of a French-hood, in stead of a joynture, wages his law, and joynes issue.
