Cornette

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, wearing ones made of muslin or gauze and richly ornamented with lace.

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).
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