A hood; especially, an ornamental or an official hood.

A device placed on the foreheads of horses which draw the hearse in pompous funerals.

( Middle Ages into Renaissance ) Pointed hood ( long point known as liripipe ) with short cape. The hood face opening was placed over the forehead as a headband and the cape gathered up and pleated in the form of a fan . The liripipe was twisted around the pleated cape to hold it in place. (14c. ) The petal scalloping or dagged or castellated edge was a variation. (15c. ) This was gradually sewn into place as a hat. The chaperon was made up over a stuffed roll or ROUNDLET. The liripipe eventually acquired great lengths.

a wide hood with shoulder cape worn during the Middle Ages by men.

hat contrived from winding long 'liripipe' round cap, later made as complete headgear.

Chaperon (; Middle French: chaperon) was a form of hood or, later, highly versatile hat worn in Europe in the Middle Ages. It was especially fashionable in mid-15th century Burgundy.