A good eye might have told it to be the head of a woman, wearing a white hood-the graceful coif or coverchief of the time.
"The White Gauntlet"
Mayne Reid
Her rich golden hair, escaping from its silken coif, swept the floor at her feet.
"The White Gauntlet"
Mayne Reid
Judges and sergeants were then common members of the Guild-both wore the "coif."
"Bardell v. Pickwick"
Percy Fitzgerald