bycocket / bycoket

bycocket or bycoket (BAI-kaw-kuht) - n., a hat with a high crown and a wide brim turned up in back and coming to a point like a beak in front, worn especially in medieval Europe.



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Now mostly associated with Robin Hood, but it was fashionable for both men and women (see pic) from the 1200s-1500s. Also sometimes called abacot or abococket, formed by assimilating "a bycocket" into one word. In French this is now called a chapeau à bec, hat with a beak, but the original name (which English took on) was bicoquet, from bi-, double +‎ coque, shell, which I can sort of see.

---L.