Sentence examples for french hood from inspiring English sources
The face was framed in front by a jeweled metal frame shaped like a pyramid (the English hood) or a horseshoe (the French hood).
Women of all ages wore a French hood, especially in winter, when it was made of heavy cloth or fur-lined; this hood, tied loosely under the chin, is seen in many portraits of the time.
Some of the voices are comic – Anne Boleyn is foxy ("Paris taught me more than how to wear a French hood"), Catherine of Aragon sounds like Speedy Gonzalez – and yet the content is deadly serious.
It's never clear if you're walking past a production assistant or an actor playing a production assistant, and the mansion's décor — sheepskin rugs, French hood chairs — must give Shapiro flashbacks.
By the time Jane Seymour married Henry VIII the gable hood was going out of fashion, in favour of the more flattering French hood (worn by Anne Boleyn in her portrait).
A French hood on her head covers most of her red hair.
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To confront the French frigates, Hood diverted a powerful squadron from his fleet at Toulon.
On the outbreak of the French Revolutionary War, Hood was sent to the Mediterranean as commander in chief.
The spy taught French, apparently, to the Mafia hood.
In the West Indies he was for a time in independent command because of Rodney's absence in England: and, when the British islands of St. Kitts and Nevis were attacked by the French admiral Comte de Grasse, Hood, after initial defeats, succeeded in beating off the attacks of the enemy.
