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Definition of Billycocks
1. billycock [n] - See also: billycock
Lexicographical Neighbors of Billycocks
Literary usage of Billycocks
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1907)
"The old men camo in their billycocks and clean white smocks—their Sunday best—each
with staff in hand, grasped just above the middle. ..."
2. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1889)
"... civilians in broadcloth and billycocks soberly discussing the daily papers,
or arguing heatedly about the predilections and friendly intentions of the ..."
3. The Gentleman's Magazine (1874)
"... and are being replaced by wide-awakes and billycocks; that there are more
trousers and bluchers than knee-shorts and ankle-jacks among the coal-heavers ..."
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