Cap (clothing)
See also: Cap
The cap is a Cover-chief designed either to frame the face, or to hide it; in fact, it generally has a form of Voûte. With the the Middle Ages, he is regarded as a sophisticated and elegant accessory.
He can be in fabric of flax starched, out of decorated flexible paperboard, woven straw or thick cloth. In the same way, it can go down more or less low on the shoulders or in the middle of the back. It comprises sometimes bonds to maintain it which make it possible to fold back it behind without losing it, it is indicated then also under the term of hood .
When it comprises a very long point which leaves the top of the cranium, one speaks about Liripipion ; it was a cover-chief sails very about it in the Années 1300, sometimes the point was so long that it went rolled up on the head like a turban.
The women carried it as a bonnet with long ends which were rolled up on the head with the manner of a Turban. It can be embroidered or decorated with wire, so as to make a point in the middle of the face with the two sides which go up.
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