‖ chapeau
(ʃapo)
Also 6 chapewe, shapeau.
[F. chapeau, in OF. capel, chapel hat, head-covering (= Pr. capel, Sp. capelo, Pg. chapeo, It. cappello):—L. cappellum, -us, dim. f. cappa cap.]
1. A hat or other covering for the head. The French name, formerly partly naturalized; now chiefly in Heraldry.
| 1523 Ld. Berners Froiss. clxxxvii. (R.) Bearynge on his heed a chapewe of Montaban. Ibid. I. ccccxix. 734 They were armed the moost partie with malles and chapeause of stele. Ibid. I. ccccxxx. 756 With pauasses and cootes of steele, hoctons, shapeause, and bassenettes. 1586 J. Ferne Blaz. Gentrie 138 The heaume and Chapeau that the Duke or King doth weare. 1661 Morgan Sph. Gentry iv. iv. 53 A bull Saturn standing upon a Chapeau Mars, turned up Ermin. 1787 Porny Heraldry Gloss., Chapeau..is taken in Heraldry for an antient Cap of Dignity. 1864 Boutell Heraldry, Hist. & Pop. xvii. 272 The crest-coronet and also the chapeau are still retained in modern blazon. |
2. chapeau-bras (ʃapo bra). [F. bras arm.] A small three-cornered flat silk hat which could be carried under the arm: worn by gentlemen at court or in full dress in the 18th century.
| 1764 Mrs. Harris in Priv. Lett. 1st Ld. Malmesbury I. 114 The common chapeau bras cocked in the Nivernois style. 1777 Sheridan Trip Scarb. i. ii, Give me..my chapeau [Servant brings a dress hat]. 1824 Scott Redgauntlet let. v, A chapeau bras and sword necessarily completed his equipment. 18.. in Lockhart iv. (1839) I. 169 He used to come to the Greyfriars Church in a suit of white and silver with a chapeau-bras. 1834 J. R. Planché Brit. Costume 314 The chapeau-de-bras. |