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Fiddleheads or fiddlehead greens are the furled fronds from a fledgling fern, [1] harvested for use as a vegetable. Left on the plant, each fiddlehead would unroll into a new frond (circinate vernation). As fiddleheads are harvested early in the season, before the frond has opened and reached its full height, they are cut fairly close to the ...
In Canada, a knitted hat, worn in winter, usually made from wool or acrylic. Also known as a woolly hat, ski cap, knit hat, knit cap, sock cap, stocking cap, or watch cap. Sometimes called a toboggan or goobalini in parts of the USA. In New Zealand, Australia, the United States and the United Kingdom, the term "Stocking Cap" is applied to this cap.
In a mid-year wrap-up of the best emo and post-hardcore albums of the year, he included this among the top ten [13] and also included it among the 50 best punk albums of the year. [14] In Exclaim! , Adam Feibel rated this album an 8 out of 10 for combining melody and intensity, with music that "is just as intellectually and emotionally engaging ...
A party hat is generally a playful conical hat made with a rolled up piece of thin cardboard, usually with designs printed on the outside and a long string of elastic going from one side of the cone's bottom to another to secure the cone to one's head. Phrygian cap: The Phrygian cap is a soft cap with the top pulled forward.
General Sir Richard Dannatt wearing a service dress hat with gold oak leaf embellishments.. In the British Armed Forces, and in the armed forces of several other Commonwealth countries, scrambled egg (singular) is a nickname for the gold braid (called an "oak leaf sprig") on the peak of senior officers' peaked caps, and by extension a nickname for an officer.
The first form of jockey's cap appeared in the late 17th century and was generally made of velvet with a peak or visor and a hatband fastened at the front with a buckle. [1] This early style of cap is preserved in the "State Dress" of the musicians of the Household Cavalry , who adopted it at the behest of Queen Victoria . [ 2 ]
U.S. Army Rangers wearing "Ranger Roll" patrol caps, 1986. A patrol hat, also known as a field cap or soft cap, is a soft kepi constructed similarly to a baseball cap, with a stiff, rounded visor but featuring a flat top, worn by military personnel of some countries in the field when a combat helmet is not required.
Chaperon is a diminutive of chape, which derives, like the English cap, cape and cope, from the Late Latin cappa, which already could mean cap, cape or hood ().. The tail of the hood, often quite long, was called the tippit [2] or liripipe in English, and liripipe or cornette in French.