What is "billycock"

Usage examples of "billycock".

His head, disproportionately large, was surmounted by a black billycock hat with a very flat brim.

Rapt and prophetic, his plump hands clasped round the handle of his umbrella, his billycock hat a trifle askew, this irascible little man of the Voice, this impatient dreamer, this scolding Optimist, who has argued so rudely and dogmatically about economics and philosophy and decoration, and indeed about everything under the sun, who has been so hard on the botanist and fashionable women, and so reluctant in the matter of beer, is carried onward, dreaming dreams, dreams that with all the inevitable ironies of difference, may be realities when you and I are dreams.

I beg that you will look upon it not as a battered billycock but as an intellectual problem.

His full-tailed frock-coat of old-fashioned cut hung from the knob of his chair, on which was perched his billycock hat.

Anderson, an Ontario teacher turned politician, who campaigned wearing a billycock hat and wing collar.

On his head perched a low-crowned billycock hat as evil as the rest of the rig.

He never seemed to change, was always the big boisterous fellow in bright brown clothes and even brighter boots, with a brown billycock and a check overcoat, thick red hair that never went grey and eyebrows to match.

Its billycock hat had been pulled down over the stuffed bag which formed its head.

To add to the incongruity of his appearance, on the top of his hair, which was still done in ridges, Zulu fashion, and decorated with long bone snuff-spoons, was perched an extremely small and rakish-looking billycock hat, and in his hand he carried his favourite and most gigantic knobstick.

The dog-collar seller tips his billycock and disappears, but his luckless companion, having fetched a small black object out of his knapsack, lingers.

If Cecil Rhodes's vision could come true (which fortunately is increasingly improbable), such countries as Persia or Arabia would simply be filled with ugly and vulgar fatalists in billycocks, instead of with graceful and dignified fatalists in turbans.

Maybe she had in fact bought a hat, for in her more seductive moods, she liked the glamour of berets and billycocks, panamas and turbans, cloches and calashes.

His head was enroofed with a billycock hat, And his low-necked shoes were aduncous and flat.

As the two paused on the door-step, before taking a turn in the garden, the front garden gate was thrown open with violence, and a young man with a billycock hat on the back of his head tumbled up the steps in his eagerness.

I had a week at most at my disposal, so for three or four nights I set off stealthily after dark, dressed in an ancient pea jacket and patched unmentionables, with a muffler and billycock hat and cracked boots, Galand in one pocket and flask in t'other, skulking round Conduit Street to see what his movements were.