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Billycock - What does it mean?

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is likely misspelled.


has no English definition.

As a noun billycock

is a felt hat with a rounded crown, similar to a bowler.

billycock

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (dated) A felt hat with a rounded crown, similar to a bowler.
  • * 1911 , (GK Chesterton), :
    • a young man with a billycock hat on the back of his head tumbled up the steps in his eagerness.
  • * 1922 , (Virginia Woolf), , Vintage Classics, paperback edition, page 68:
    • All this blazed up and showed faces far back, round, pale, smooth, bearded, some with billycock hats [...].
  • * 1936 , (Djuna Barnes), Nightwood , Faber & Faber 2007, p. 56:
    • the grandmother who, for some unknown reason, was dressed as a man, wearing a billycock and a corked moustache, ridiculous and plump in tight trousers and a red waistcoat [...].
  • * 1978 , (Lawrence Durrell), Livia'', Faber & Faber 1992 (''Avignon Quintet ), p. 372:
    • the increasing paralysis confined her to this steel trolley, pushed by a gloved attendant dressed in a billycock hat and a long grey dustcoat.

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