quoif

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English

Noun

quoif (plural quoifs)

  1. Obsolete form of coif.
    • c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, ”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies  (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
      A scaly gauntlet now with joints of steel / Must glove this hand: and hence, thou sickly quoif! / Thou art a guard too wanton for the head / Which princes, flesh'd with conquest, aim to hit.