A soldier’s cap.
“The soldiers that the Monmouth wear,
On castlesʹ tops their ensigns rear.”
“The best caps were formerly made at Monmouth, where the cappersʹ chapel doth still remain.”—Fuller: Worthies of Wales, p. 50.
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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.
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