quoif
English
Noun
quoif (plural quoifs)
- Obsolete form of coif.
- 159?, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 2
- 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.
- 159?, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 2