cocked-hats

They all wore bouquets of the richest flowers: they wore bags, their hair slightly powdered, brilliant shoulder-knots, and cocked-hats laced with gold.

Burlesques 2006

It is well known that, in the troublous revolutionary times, cocked-hats were worn of a considerable size.

The History of the Next French Revolution 2006

They all wore bouquets of the richest flowers: they wore bags, their hair slightly powdered, brilliant shoulder-knots, and cocked-hats laced with gold.

The History of the Next French Revolution 2006

It is well known that, in the troublous revolutionary times, cocked-hats were worn of a considerable size.

Burlesques 2006

He made little boats out of whole newspapers, an art he learnt by watching the Spender boy, and he set them sailing down the stream — great paper cocked-hats.

The Food of the Gods and how it came to Earth Herbert George 2004

When there happens to be a number of brother-tars similarly employed, who have engaged all the coaches, fiddlers, and sweethearts in the town, it is then that Jack is put to his wits'-end; and it is only by buying cocked-hats and top-boots for the boat's-crew, or some such absurdity, that he can get all his cash scattered before he is obliged to return on board.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, October 16, 1841 Various

Officers were riding over the ground, dressed in uniform, and mounted on their splendid steeds: their plumes waving over their cocked-hats in true military array.

Twenty-Two Years a Slave, and Forty Years a Freeman Embracing a Correspondence of Several Years, While President of Wilberforce Colony, London, Canada West Austin Steward

He was possessed of six dozen of cocked-hats, and they must be worn out.

The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851 Various

Admirals, sailors, stewards, cocked-hats, and Post Captains fell for ten minutes without intermission from the clouds into which they had been driven by the awful force of the explosion.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, October 3, 1891 Various

Garter King motions to three Peers to be seated; tells them to put on their cocked-hats; counts ten; nods to them; they rise to feet, uplift cocked-hats in direction of LORD CHANCELLOR on Woolsack.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, January 31, 1891 Various