A head covering or headdress; a cloth worn to cover the head or hair, historically used by women.
From cover + chief (from Old French chief meaning 'head'), literally a cloth that covers the head; archaic term for what we'd now call a headscarf or bonnet.
Coverchiefs were practical headwear across social classes in medieval and Renaissance Europe, and the style persisted in religious communities—nuns' veils are essentially modernized coverchiefs.
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