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 Monmouth.Monmouth Street (London) 
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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
Monmouth Cap.
 
A soldier’s cap.   1
       
“The soldiers that the Monmou&tgrave;h 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.
 


 Monmouth.Monmouth Street (London) 

 
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