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#127093 04/07/04 04:40 PM
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iam interested in words for headcovers..

hat
cap
bonnet
beret
tam (o'shanter) (and let's discuss how a tam is different than a beret)
beanie
and is a toque a cloché? and if not, why not?

there are more.. sent them in...

and does anyone know the name for the flat, pleated cap/hat that is used by the military?

(about 12 inches long, and 4 inches high, its made of cloth, and is sometimes carried on a soldier/offices belt, (there are pleats of fabric in the top, that open up when the cap is worn.) (i've seen the lawyers on the (US) TV show JAG wear them, but i always think of them as army hats, not navy hats...)

i am less interested in fancy millanary, more in simple hats, but hey, i don't really care if we veer off.


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If by tam (o'shanter) you mean balmoral then here's your difference:

http://www.tufftrading.com/products/caps/mvc-383f.gif


#127095 04/07/04 05:06 PM
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Some off the top of my head: czapka (usually worn by lanciers), Pickelhaube (spiked Prussian helmet), bearskin (tall furry black hats worn by all those Royal Guards units), porkpie, straw, boater, fore and aft, tricorn, Phrygian cap, Liberty cap, titfer (Cockney rhyming slang for hat, "tit fer tat"), peaked hat, fatigue cap, ski cap, busby (worn by hussars, with a kolpak 'bag' on top), s(c)hako, turbin, snap brim, and fedora. Hope that helps, of troy.


#127096 04/07/04 05:50 PM
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jheem,...phew!!

mitre, headscarf


#127097 04/07/04 06:11 PM
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Some off the top of my head

How many more you got up there, jheem?


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Trying to remember: biretta, kippah (aka yarmulke), burnoose, what are the little pillbox hats that some Africans wear called? Goes with the daishiki. Beret, biretta, and burnoose are all ultimately from Late Latin birrus 'hooded cloak'. Deerstalker, baseball cap, stovepipe hat, sombrero, Stetson (a brand though used generically). Pant, gasp, that's it for now.


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(and let's discuss how a tam is different than a beret)
A Tammie is difr'nt tae a berry cause it ha' a wee bit tawssie atop.




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The covering for one's bonce, in my young days, at least, were known as:

me tile
me 'eadgear
me titfer (tit for tat + hat)

On a more formal note, one referred to:
a Trilby (soft felt hat)
A Homburg (VERY formal hat with a stiff brim)
Cap
A Bowler hat (what you USns would call a Derby)
A Top Hat (VERY, VERY Formal - for State Occasions, etc)


#127101 04/07/04 07:14 PM
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what are the little pillbox hats that some Africans wear called?

Depends on the shape. Képi or fez. Tarboosh is another word for them. (Thank you, thank you, Edgar Wallace, fount of all African wisdom. Ha!)

Also snapbrim, fedora.

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Tuque (winter headwear)
Helmet
Sombrero


And what is that thing that nuns wear on their heads. It has a specific name.

Oh, and we can't forget wig and toupee.


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