Historical headgear, a close-fitting cap for a woman or child, 16th and 17th century.
1Often a velvet cap was worn outside the biggin or lace cap.
2I have seen it stated that the biggin was a night-cap.
3By Shakespere's day biggin had become wholly a term for a child's cap.
4The French coffee biggin is valuable for this.
5As he whose brow with homely biggin bound
6But to be reduced from helmet and steel coat to biggin and gown in a night brawl-
7This was altered in spelling to biggin, and for a time a nun's plain linen cap was thus called.
9Oswald's wife then put before him a large pie, and some wheaten bread, with a biggin of good beer.
10He presently brought her a biggin of fine white sand, which brought the shore of Surrey to my mind's eye.
11Your news has put me in a fever, continued Edward, taking up the biggin and drinking a large draught of beer.
12To make coffee without boiling, you must have a biggin, the best sort of which is what in France is called a Grecque.
13At Marton the father worked for a Mr. Mewburn, living in a small cottage built of mud, called in the district a clay biggin.
14Hardly had we got into the tiny thatched house-oncea mere "clay biggin"-whereBurns was born, than the four appeared on the scene.
15He nodded to Biggin and then acknowledged Rutledge just behind the sergeant.
16Sergeant Biggin asks if you can come to the clinic at once?