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Trencher Cap

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The mortar-board cap worn at college; so called from the trenchered or split boards which form the top. Mortar-board is a perversion of the French mortier.

 

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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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