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Tricorne

Also: cocked hat

A tricorne is a hat with its brim turned up on three sides to form a triangle, worn widely in Europe in the eighteenth century.

The tricorne came from cocking the wide brims of seventeenth-century hats. It was worn by men of all ranks, by soldiers, and sometimes by women for riding, before giving way to the two-cornered bicorne at the end of the century.

Sources

  1. Tricorne (AAT 300046114). Getty Art & Architecture Thesaurus
  2. Tricorne (Q763457). Wikidata

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