Cornette

A cornette is a piece of headwear for religious sisters. 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. Initially, the cornette was fashionable for some Parisian ladies around 1800, wearing ones made of muslin or gauze and richly ornamented with lace.

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