mon mouth (monmuth)

A flat cap originally made at Mon mouth, England, formerly much worn by seamen. Caps which the Dutch seamen buy, called mon mouth caps. Defoe , Tour through Great Britain, II. 339. ( Davies .) Mon mouth cock. A fashion of wearing the flap-hat imitated from the Duke of Mon mouth, son of Charles II., and still prevailing in the early part of the eighteenth century. The smartest of the country Squires still in the Mon mouth Cock, and when they go a wooing, whether they have any post in the militia or not, they generally put on a red coat. Spectator, No. 129. Mon mouth hat. A hat worn with a Mon mouth cock.