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Meanings of biggin in English

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Historical headgear, a close-fitting cap for a woman or child, 16th and 17th century.

Usage of biggin in English
1
Often a velvet cap was worn outside the biggin or lace cap.
Two Centuries of Costume in America, Volume 1 (1620-1820)
2
I have seen it stated that the biggin was a night-cap.
Two Centuries of Costume in America, Volume 1 (1620-1820)
3
By Shakespere's day biggin had become wholly a term for a child's cap.
Two Centuries of Costume in America, Volume 1 (1620-1820)
4
The French coffee biggin is valuable for this.
Miss Parloa's New Cook Book
5
As he whose brow with homely biggin bound
Shakespeare's Insomnia, and the Causes Thereof
6
But to be reduced from helmet and steel coat to biggin and gown in a night brawl-
The Fair Maid of Perth; Or, St. Valentine's Day
7
This was altered in spelling to biggin, and for a time a nun's plain linen cap was thus called.
Two Centuries of Costume in America, Volume 1 (1620-1820)
8
I bet he's a biggin.
The marrowbone marble company
9
Oswald's wife then put before him a large pie, and some wheaten bread, with a biggin of good beer.
The Children of the New Forest
10
He presently brought her a biggin of fine white sand, which brought the shore of Surrey to my mind's eye.
The Morgesons: A Novel
11
Your news has put me in a fever, continued Edward, taking up the biggin and drinking a large draught of beer.
The Children of the New Forest
12
To make coffee without boiling, you must have a biggin, the best sort of which is what in France is called a Grecque.
Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches
13
At Marton the father worked for a Mr. Mewburn, living in a small cottage built of mud, called in the district a clay biggin.
The Life of Captain James Cook, the Circumnavigator
14
Hardly had we got into the tiny thatched house-oncea mere "clay biggin"-whereBurns was born, than the four appeared on the scene.
The Heather-Moon
15
He nodded to Biggin and then acknowledged Rutledge just behind the sergeant.
The red door
16
Sergeant Biggin asks if you can come to the clinic at once?
The red door
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