The antient coifs of the serjeants-at-law were small linen or silk caps fitting close to the top of the head.
The early portraits of our judges exhibit them with a coif of very much larger dimensions than the coifs now worn by the serjeants-at-law, very much larger than would be necessary to hide the mere clerical tonsure.
There were two men and two women--the men fair and bearded, wearing peaked caps; the women in their best lace coifs and smartest aprons.
These women may have carried heavy hearts under their bright coifs and cotton blouses, but their weather-beaten faces betrayed nothing but the stoical determination to get their supplies to the Halles at the usual hour.
Coifs and blouses have turned black, but the hard brown faces betray nothing, and they are never late.
The dress of the people is peculiar, with the great baggy trousers of the men, the coifs of the women, and the general display and love of the finery of bright colours which seem inherent with a people living upon the seacoast.
The women of Rosporden wear the most immense bonnets and coifs to be seen in all Brittany, and wimples like those of the Sisters of Charity.
The big Maraichins seized their partners and sprang them so high that their muslin coifs touched the ceiling.
In their gala dresses they knelt on the muddy bank, their coifs and aprons blown about in the wind.
Every minute five or six white coifs were to be seen bowing and bending in farewell salute, separating from the others, and going off to the right hand or the left.
The Indians at an early day called the English women "lazie Squaes" when they saw the latter embroidering coifsinstead of digging in the fields.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "coifs" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
