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

[Joel S. Berson]

I apologize to Wilson.  I had thought he had added nothing to the
message of mine he was replying to, but I missed the line Ben quotes,
down a number of lines.  And I had replied to Wilson's question
previously, when I wrote, quoting my original message:

>"Postdates OED2 "Kevenhuller" sense a.  -1746", Wilson.

Joel

At 9/28/2011 11:35 AM, Ben Zimmer wrote:
>ICYMI, Wilson said:
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> >You've induced an attack of cultural deprivation, Joel. What is your
> >post about?
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>On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 1:58 PM, Joel S. Berson
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>Wilson, are you saying anything below?  Your "N.T." technique doesn't
>work when replying.
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>Joel
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>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
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> > > Subject:      "Cave Nullo cock" (of a hat, that is; ignore any
> > chili peppers)
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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.
> > >
> > > New York Mercury, 1757 Jan. 31, page 3, col. 1.
> > >
> > > 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
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