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Added--thanks, mollusque!

How about mutch?

Not to worry. I have to check them myself--too many hats! :-)

THAT'S what happens when your finger is faster than your stuputer (stupid + computer)

Oops! That's what happens when you think you've viewd all but you've only viewd some...*putting on dunce cap and sitting on stool.*

Oops! That's what happens when you think you've viewd all but you've only viewd some...my bad! *putting on dunce cap and sitting on stool.*

Thanks! Already listed beanie and babushka, though. :-)

baseball cap
visor
beanie
bandana
babushka

Don't forget your tinfoil hat.

Then consider me a true perpilocutionist. :-)

If you're a true perpilocutionist you will add kamelaukion to your list.

What? Well, I never, in all my....

Oh. Thanks, then. :-)

While you were galericulated, you forgot to doff your gibus (an opera hat), and thus you were a perpilocutionist.

Thanks for the reminder. I do need to get to these comments some day. Maybe on Saturday, after I'm through washing my water buffalo.

If it's here, it doesn't have a definition or any comments. Tomorrow I'll take a photo of it and see if anyone can help, maybe. :D

Well, you presently have 154 choices. :-) Let us know when you figure it out!

I knew this list would come in useful! I bought a new hat today, and I want to find out what it's called.

Thanks, guys! Frindley, I just couldn't think of the name for that enormous thing, believe it or not. Prolagus, is a berritta similar to a biretta? Just wondering. :-)

And how about the Sicilian coppola and the Sardinian berritta? And the Phrygian cap?

There's the bearskin worn by the Grenadier guards at Buckingham Palace.

Hey! How come I could delete it? Passing strange....

But you're still doubly loved. :-)

Sorry about the double comment. I tried to delete it but it doesn't work the way it used to. You'll just have to love me twice as much for the time being.

Looks comfy! Added.

Blangkon is a traditional Javanese headdress that looks like this .

Hmm. Good argument. To be democratic, I'm adding mitre too. After all, if we can have three spellings of copotain, we can have two of this word. :-)

Interesting. I must confess I took wikipedia as my democratic guide to preferred spelling on that one, but it seems others have been there before us, e.g. "Duncan" who reports:

So when I was preparing my previous post on an anti-Catholic sculpture, I encountered the eternal spelling conflict…

So I fire up the spell checker called Google. I Google mitre and get about 767,000 hits. I Google miter and get about 415,000 hits. I Google "bishop's mitre" and get about 1,560 hits. I Google "bishop's miter" and get about 741 hits.

The American Heritage dictionary (which I use for my modern dictionary) has the usual weasel words about mitre "Chiefly British -- Variant of miter." But then its entomology entry says:

Middle English mitre, from Old French, from Medieval Latin, from Latin mitra, headdress of the Jewish high priest, from Greek.]

This suggests that mitre is closer to the word origin.

The online Catholic Encyclopedia prefers mitre. The OED likes mitre as well. So I guess it's mitre for me.
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Thanks, frindley! Added--but being American, I used the U.S. spelling. :-)

Great list! How about a bishop's mitre?

How about a legionnaires? They're those caps with the flap at the back to protect your neck. Most often worn by little boys up to about 10, sometimes in school uniform colours.

How about tuque?

Thanks, M! Though it sounds a little morbid, if you pronounce it the wrong way. ;-)

How about casquette, a cap with a visor (MW3).