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