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Definition of Flat cap
1. Noun. A flat woolen cap with a stiff peak.
Definition of Flat cap
1. Noun. Popular with outdoor country sportsmen, farmers, and workers, particularly in the north of England. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Flat Cap
Literary usage of Flat cap
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Diary of Henry Machyn, Citizen and Merchant-taylor of London, from A.D by Henry Machyn (1848)
"... Holbein is engraved in the beautiful work by Chamberlain : it represents him
in singular dishabille, with a bald head, surmounted by a flat cap. P. 176. ..."
2. Christian Iconography: Or, The History of Christian Art in the Middle Ages by Adolphe Napoléon Didron (1851)
"INI; A flat cap, OR CASQUETTE. Not one among all the angels sculptured or painted
in the church of Notre Dame de Brou, at Bourg, has a nimbus; ..."
3. Costume in England: A History of Dress to the End of the Eighteenth Century by Frederick William Fairholt (1885)
"He wears a very flat cap, the original of the pired on the heads of our ...
wears a flat-cap of a scarlet colour. Such an one is alluded to by Pride in ..."
4. A Select Collection of Old Plays: In Twelve Volumes by Robert Dodsley, Isaac Reed, Octavius Gilchrist, John Payne Collier (1825)
"Flat-cap? hark in your ear, sir, y'are a flat fool, an ass, a gull, ... the hands
of Spaniards : for the sight of a flat-cap was more ' dreadful! to a Lob, ..."
5. The Ancient British Drama by Robert Dodsley (1810)
"When do you show those pieces i Omnes. Presently, sir, presently, we are but
charging them. Fust. Come, sirrah, you *5 flat cap, where be those whites ? ..."
6. General Laws of the State of Texas by Texas (1876)
"flat cap paper—twelve pounds to the ream, $5. per ream; fourteen pounds to the
ream, $5.90 per ream ; sixteen poun to the ream, $6.75 per ream; ..."
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