Monmouth cap

noun

: a flat round cap formerly worn by soldiers and sailors

did good service … wearing leeks in their Monmouth caps which your Majesty know to this hour is an honourable badge of the service

—Shakespeare

Word History

Etymology

from Monmouth, England

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