Lexicographical Neighbors of Flatcaps
Literary usage of Flatcaps
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of English Dramatic Literature to the Death of Queen Anne by Adolphus William Ward (1899)
"... sobriquet of ' flatcaps.' The foundation of Crosbie House by Lord Mayor Crosbie
receives special commemoration. In Part II, Jane Shore, when brought in ..."
2. The History of Henry Fielding by Wilbur Lucius Cross (1918)
"... scored deep at the Taverns, borrow'd Money of my Landlords and their Drawers;
burrough'd in privi- leg'd Places among the flatcaps of the Town, ..."
3. A Select Collection of Old English Plays by Robert ed Dodsley, William Carew Hazlitt (1875)
"Citizens and apprentices were called in derision flatcaps and what-d'ye-lacla in
reference to their dress and occupation. ..."
4. Irish Literature by Justin McCarthy, Maurice Francis Egan, Douglas Hyde, Charles Welsh, Gregory, James Jeffrey Roche (1904)
"said he, "young flatcaps, come down now, if you dare. Come down, if you dare,
and I shall give you oc-oc-ocular demonstration of the truth of what I was ..."
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