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Definition of Flatcap
1. n. A kind of low- crowned cap formerly worn by all classes in England, and continued in London after disuse elsewhere; -- hence, a citizen of London.
Definition of Flatcap
1. a type of hat [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Flatcap
Literary usage of Flatcap
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Book of Roxburghe Ballads by John Payne Collier (1847)
"Old flatcap is laid in his grave." flatcap was of old not an ... mock me all
over, From my flatcap unto my ..."
2. Nero & Other Plays by Henry Porter, John Day, Herbert Percy Horne, Nathan Field (1888)
"Why, how now, good man flatcap, what- d'ye-lack?1 Whom do you talk to, sirrah ?
... 1 " flatcap " and " What-d'ye-lack " were cant names for citizens and ..."
3. Representative English Comedies: With Introductory Essays and Notes, an by Charles Mills Gayley, Alwin Thaler (1913)
"... lets be no longer fooles to this flatcap, Touchstone. Eastward, bully !
This sattin-belly, and canvas-backt Touchstone—slife ! man, his father was a ..."