fool's-cap

It is a tall feather in his fool's-cap, that his fantastic person is a dread to evil-doers on thrones, in cabinets, and red-tape offices.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, No. 14, December 1858 Various

The face completed, there was a renewed burst of merriment when Peters topped it with a fool's-cap, and on that sketched rough hieroglyphics.

The Young Railroaders Tales of Adventure and Ingenuity Francis Lovell Coombs

To cut out the cramp bone, take hold of the shank (which should be previously wound round with half a sheet of fool's-cap paper) with your left hand, and cut down to the thigh bone at _g_, then pass the knife under the cramp bone, in the direction _g_, _d_.

The American Housewife Containing the Most Valuable and Original Receipts in all the Various Branches of Cookery; and Written in a Minute and Methodical Manner Anonymous

_Sir Francis Burdett_, upon the exceeding complacency with which he wears his own fool's-cap.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, November 13, 1841 Various

The conical head-dress, resembling a fool's-cap or sugar-loaf, measures two or three feet high, and is kept in its place by a coarse cloth, and covered with a finer kerchief.

The Story of Ida Pfeiffer and Her Travels in Many Lands Anonymous

The fool's-cap he wears does not prove him to be a fool; and even when he touches the tip of his nasal organ with his fore-finger and winks so irresistibly, meaning lurks in his facetious features, to assure you he does not jest without a purpose, or play the buffoon only to coin sixpences.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, No. 14, December 1858 Various

A new sheet of fool's-cap was procured, and torn in two, lengthwise, and pinned in a long strip.

Balcony Stories Grace E. King

By dint of sharp elbow and brawny shoulder our good knight forced himself a way until -- surrounded by men-at-arms, his limbs fast bound, his motley torn and bloody, his battered fool's-cap all awry -- he beheld Duke Jocelyn haled and dragged along by fierce hands.

The Geste of Duke Jocelyn Jeffery Farnol 1915

As he gazed at the fool's-cap in his hand a roar of merciless laughter greeted his discovery.

The Law-Breakers and Other Stories Robert Grant 1896

Lest too much of this officer's wisdom should become tiresome, the Duke's other shoulder was occupied by his hoff-narr, or court jester, called Jonas Schwanker, who made almost as much noise with his fool's-cap, bells, and bauble, as did the orator, or man of talk, with his jingling baton.

The Talisman 1894