{{Short description|Levantine cone-shaped woman's headdress}} {{Arab culture}}
The '''tantour''' (''tantoor'') is a form of cone-shaped women's headdress similar to the hennin, popular in the Levant during the nineteenth century, but seldom seen after 1850 outside of use as a folk costume.<ref>{{Citation | url = http://almashriq.hiof.no/general/600.technology/640/646/costumes_of_the_Levant/19th.html | contribution = 19th Century Lebanese Princess |title= Almashriq | publisher= Hiof | place = NO}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.trmkt.com/tantour.htm |title= The Tantour or Shihabbiyeen |publisher= TRMKT |access-date= 2010-08-16 |archive-date= 2016-03-03 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20160303192256/http://www.trmkt.com/tantour.htm |url-status= dead }}</ref> The tantour was usually only worn by wealthy noblewomen and often decorated with precious jewels and pearls, with most expensive tantours being made of gold or silver. Being an honored headdress, the tantour was a customary gift presented to the bride by her husband on their wedding day.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://almashriq.hiof.no/general/600/640/646/costumes_of_the_Levant/origin.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100224115446/http://almashriq.hiof.no/general/600/640/646/costumes_of_the_Levant/origin.html|archive-date=2010-02-24|website=Almashriq|title=Origin of Levantine Costumes|publisher=Hiof|access-date=2010-08-16}}</ref>
==Gallery== <gallery> File:Montfort - Libanaise assise par terre.jpg|Lebanese princess of the Abillama family with a child, by Antoine-Alphonse Montfort, {{Circa|1837}} File:Damascusfashion.jpg|Damascus fashion, illustration from the book ''Popular Costumes in Turkey,'' 1873 File:Zahlefashion.jpg|Lebanese fashion, illustration from the book ''Popular Costumes in Turkey,'' 1873 File:Druzewomantanturalt.png|Tantour on a Druze woman in Chouf, Lebanon, 1870s File:Lebprincess.jpg|Recreated costume of a Lebanese princess from the nineteenth century, including a tantour </gallery>
==See also== *Hennin *Kokoshnik *Ochipok *Labbadeh, traditional Lebanese men's headdress *Pointed hat *List of hat styles *List of headgear
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Category:19th-century fashion Category:Headgear Category:Hats Category:Arabic clothing Category:Middle Eastern clothing Category:Clothing of the Ottoman Empire Category:Lebanese fashion Category:Druze culture Category:Women's clothing {{clothing-stub}}