coiffe

coif (headgear in general)

“une coiffe paysanne” — a peasant's coif (similar to a white bonnet)

Inherited from Middle French coiffe, from Late Latin cofia, from Old High German *kuffia, *kuphia (“little cap”), diminutive of Old High German kuffa, kupha (“hood, cap”), from Proto-West Germanic *kuppu (“round object, bowl”) (see English cop). See also Middle High German kupfe (“cap”), Old High German kupphia (“cap”); also spelled coeffe up to the 18th century.