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Definition of "billycock" [bil•ly•cock]

  • Chiefly British A felt hat with a low, rounded crown, similar to a derby. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "billycock" in a sentence
  • "A billycock is a beautiful object (it may be eagerly urged), but it is not in the same style of architecture as Ely Cathedral; it is a dome, a small rococo dome in the Renaissance manner, and does not go with the pointed arches that assault heaven like spears."
  • "The shopwoman produced a head-dress, which Tottie afterwards described as a billycock 'at with a feather in it."
  • "Some ribald passer-by put a battered felt hat upon Vishnu's sacred curls, and there the poor image sat, an alien in an indifferent land, a sack across its shoulders, a "billycock" upon its head, and honoured at most with a passing stare."
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timefor
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