"Cave Nullo cock" (of a hat, that is; ignore any chili peppers)

[Joel S. Berson]

Wilson, are you saying anything below?  Your "N.T." technique doesn't
work when replying.

Joel

At 9/27/2011 01:09 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:
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>On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 11:02 AM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
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> > Subject:      "Cave Nullo cock" (of a hat, that is; ignore any
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> > I remember when high-brim'd Hats were in the Mode, she insisted on an
> > Elevation of my Beaver of near half an Inch, with a Fierce Cave Nullo Cock.
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> > New York Mercury, 1757 Jan. 31, page 3, col. 1.
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> > Postdates OED2 "Kevenhuller" sense a.  -1746.  (Due I think to a
> > stylistic quirk of the OED, as explained to me by Jesse, all the
> > quotations appear under sense b., whereas the 1746 pertains to sense a.)
> >
> > The amusing article containing this quotation is excerpted
> > extensively in Mary Caroline Crawford's _Social Life in Old New
> > England_ (1914), pp. 222-226.  Crawford presents it as factual,
> > whereas I sense a satire, written in the style of London magazines of
> > the period.
> >
> > Joel
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>You've induced an attack of cultural deprivation, Joel. What is your
>post about?
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