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(French: head-dress)

Large, spreading, white, linen head-dress, worn by the Sisters of Charity. In the 14th century the cornette was a common head-gear for both men and ,vomen, and reached almost to the ground. Later it was a wide band of material wound around the head and reaching to the belt, to which it was attached.