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CALOTTISTS

The Calottists were a satirical society founded in 1702 by Aymon and Torsac, of Louis XIV's bodyguard, and deriving its name from the calotte, a small cap worn by priests to conceal their tonsure. The society was transformed into a military institution around the middle of the 18th century and was finally suppressed at the revolution.
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CALOTTE

A calotte was a cap or coif worn over the tonsure by ecclesiastics in France in the 15th and 16th centuries. The name was also applied to the padded cap which knights wore under their helmet, and, during the reformation, to a close-fitting woman's head-dress.
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JULIET CAP

A Juliet cap is a woman's small, richly decorated, circular cap or calotte worn on the back of the head like a skullcap.
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CALOTTE

In architecture a calotte designates a flattened dome.
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