Cocked-hat Club (The).
A club of the Society of Antiquaries. A cocked hat was always placed before the president when the club met.
There was another club so called in which the members, during club sittings, wore cocked hats.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.