Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Fontange

Fontange , noun

[French, from the name of the first wearer, Mlle. de Fontanges, about 1679.]

A kind of tall headdress formerly worn. — Addison

Text from the public-domain GNU Collaborative International Dictionary of English, derived from Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913). Definitions marked with were added by later GCIDE contributors and are not in the original 1913 edition.

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