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Baroque Headwear Rarities and Curiosities
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Across
  • 1. Three-cornered hat skirted by naval and colonial gentlemen
  • 3. Nicknamed hat due to its intricate folded and twisted lace resembling the vegetable
  • 4. Though mostly boots, metaphorically extended as a term for towering leather headdresses
  • 5. Small brimless velvet or felt cap once popular among intellectual circles
  • 9. Refined bonnet variant featuring stiffened lace and elaborate trimming
  • 11. Rarely cited soft hat with velvet binding, worn indoors by gentlemen
  • 14. French generic term for hat but also denotes a particular tall fashion accessory
  • 15. Medieval hood evolved into an 18th-century aristocratic folded hat
Down
  • 2. Small, cylindrical hat associated with military wear and noblewomen's daywear
  • 6. Originally breeches, but stretch here to an 18th-century hat style obscure in lore
  • 7. Liberty-symbolizing soft conical cap, entwined with revolutionary zeal
  • 8. Velvet or beaver-fur hat named for a famously draped style in aristocratic France
  • 10. Elaborate layered coiffure named for a French mistress, towering and ruffled
  • 12. Miniature turban-inspired headpiece favored for exotic flair
  • 13. Two-cornered hat often worn sideways by Napoleonic officers
  • 16. Seasonal circlet or bonnet often adorned with flowers or lace
  • 17. Informal term for soft night caps worn by gentlemen for warmth

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