The Cornette in Popular Culture
- In the opening sequence of Jacques Tati's 1967 film Play Time, the cornettes of two nuns move like wings as they walk in an airport.
- The headgear of the nuns in the American 1960s TV series The Flying Nun was meant to be a reference to (and spoof of) the cornette. It is the driving force of the plot in the series, as the main character (played by Sally Field) is so lightweight that she is taken up by every gust of wind because of the cornette she is wearing, and is thus able to fly.
- World Wrestling Federation tag team The Flying Nuns wore cornettes to the ring and wrestled in nun outfits.
- In the 2006 Doctor Who episode, New Earth, the humanoid cat people of the Sisters of Plenitude wear a cornette with their gowns.
- The cornettes worn by the St. Vincent nuns were a popular inspiration for painter Robert Vickrey.
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