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prettygoodwordSince I've got handful of C words lined up, time for an ad-hoc theme week:
capotain - n., a hat with a tall conical crown and a narrow brim.
Fashionable in the 16th and 17th centuries -- known in the States as the Pilgrim hat and across the Pond as a Puritan hat, because those groups continued to wear it after the toffs had moved on to other fashions. Also spelled capatain or copotain. No idea of the etymology, tho' clearly there's French and a head involved.
---L.
capotain - n., a hat with a tall conical crown and a narrow brim.
Fashionable in the 16th and 17th centuries -- known in the States as the Pilgrim hat and across the Pond as a Puritan hat, because those groups continued to wear it after the toffs had moved on to other fashions. Also spelled capatain or copotain. No idea of the etymology, tho' clearly there's French and a head involved.
---L.
