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billycock

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bil·ly·cock  (bl-kk)
n. Chiefly British
A felt hat with a low, rounded crown, similar to a derby.

[Perhaps from earlier bullycocked, cocked in the fashion of a swashbuckler : bully, gallant figure + cock.]

billycock [ˈbɪlɪkɒk]
n
(Clothing & Fashion) Rare chiefly Brit any of several round-crowned brimmed hats of felt, such as the bowler
[named after William Coke, Englishman for whom it was first made]


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As the two paused on the door-step, before taking a turn in the garden, the front garden gate was thrown open with violence, and a young man with a billycock hat on the back of his head tumbled up the steps in his eagerness.
I look in the glass sometimes at my two long, cylindrical bags (so picturesquely rugged about the knees), my stand-up collar and billycock hat, and wonder what right I have to go about making God's world hideous.
  His head was enroofed with a billycock hat,
 
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