tricorn hat
Artefact
/ˈtraɪ.kɔːn ˈhæt/
Lord-Mayoral headgear. Civic authority reduced to three corners and worn by whichever bird presently occupies the perch.
Appears in
- Pretty Poli chapters:
From the books (1 passage)
…monochrome people in that monochrome and fatiguing chamber; following which the Lord Mayor - a personage in a tricorn hat, distinct from Mr Hawksmoor Perroquet, who needless to say was not in attendance on the occasion of his usurpation - stood and made certain announcements of a dismal, pettifogging nature, which occasioned an amount of pettifogging and dismal rancour among the dismal, pettifogging people in that pettifogging and dismal chamber.…