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ˈtrencher-cap
[f. trencher1 + cap n.1]
A popular name for the academic or college cap, ‘in shape thought to resemble an inverted trencher with a basin upon it’ (Farmer and Henley); a ‘mortar-board’. Also transf. one who wears a college cap, a collegian: cf. catercap.
1721Amherst Terræ Fil. xxxv. (1754) 186 Neither do I find that these trencher-caps are more polite to their own dear countrymen, than they are to foreigners. 1796Grose's Dict. Vulg. Tongue (ed. 3), Trencher Cap, the square cap worn by the collegians, at the universities of Oxford and Cambridge. 1811Chron. in Ann. Reg. 74/1 His Royal Highness..was covered, during the whole time of his sitting.., by a trencher cap, with a gold tassel. 1861Hughes Tom Brown at Oxf. i, I walked about two inches taller in my trencher cap after it. |