1894 Brewer’s / R / Rehoboam (A)
A clerical hat.
“He [Mr. Helstone] was short of stature [and wore] a rehoboam, or shovel hat, which he did not … remove.”—“Currer Bell”: Shirley, chap. i.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.