billycock

plural billycocks · alternative billy-cock

1. datedA felt hat with a rounded crown, similar to a bowler.

   a young man with a billycock hat on the back of his head tumbled up the steps in his eagerness.

   1911, GK Chesterton, The Innocence of Father Brown

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   All this blazed up and showed faces far back, round, pale, smooth, bearded, some with billycock hats [...].

   1922, Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room, paperback edition, Vintage Classics, page 68

   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 [...].

   1936, Djuna Barnes, Nightwood, Faber & Faber, published 2007, page 56

   the increasing paralysis confined her to this steel trolley, pushed by a gloved attendant dressed in a billycock hat and a long grey dustcoat.

   1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 372