Chaperon

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A chaperon ( or ; Middle French: chaperon) was a form of hood or, later, a highly versatile hat worn by men in all parts of Western Europe in the Middle Ages.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Chaperon (headgear)”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia

Image: After Rogier van der Weyden, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.