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Monmouth Hist.|ˈmʌn-, ˈmɒnməθ|
Also 7 Munmoth.
The name of a town in Gwent, Wales (formerly the county town of Monmouthshire), used attrib.
1. Monmouth cap: a flat round cap formerly worn by soldiers and sailors.
1599Shakes. Hen. V, iv. vii. 104 The Welchmen..wearing Leekes in their Monmouth caps. 1605Chapman, etc. Eastw. Hoe iv. F 3, Hurle away a browne dozen of Monmouth capps or so, in sea-ceremony to your bone voyage. 1640Howell Dodona's Gr. 13 Sometimes you shall not see in the whole atmosphere from morning to night as much cloud as would line a Monmoth Cappe. 1641Arminian Nunnery 6 They came to Church in round Monmouth Capps. 1644Symonds Diary (Camden) 14 Bewdley. The onely manufacture of this towne is making of capps called Monmouth capps. 16..Song of Caps in J. P. Collier Roxb. Ball. (1847) 173 The souldiers that the Monmouth wear. 1713Lond. Gaz. No. 5182/4 The Caps that the Dutch Seafaring Men do generally wear, formerly called Monmouth Caps. 1777Maryland Jrnl. 22 July (Th.), [He had on a] Monmouth cap, and old coarse shoes. 1938A. L. Maycock Nicholas Ferrar viii. 204 The three masters in their black gowns and Monmouth caps followed by the boys, two and two.
2. Monmouth cock: a military ‘cock’ of the hat in vogue towards the end of the 17th century.[Prob. named after James Duke of Monmouth, natural son of Charles II.] 1711Addison Spect. No 129 ⁋10 The smartest of the Country Squires appear still in the Monmouth-Cock. 1769Granger Biog. Hist. Eng. II. 470 The Monmouth, or military cock of the hat, was much worn in this reign [sc. Charles II]. |