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the only thing you can wear, throw, pass around, and hang an entire reputation on
means A shaped covering for the head, worn for protection, warmth, ceremony, or style.
from From Old English 'hætt,' tracing back to a Proto-Germanic root '*hattuz' meaning a covering or hood — a cousin of 'hood' itself. The deeper Indo-European source is thought to carry a sense of 'to cover, protect,' the same instinct behind words for shelter. So a hat has always been, at heart, a small roof you carry on your head.
- oldest find
- A 2,000-year-old straw hat survived on a frozen Alpine mummy
- mad as one
- Hatters used mercury, which poisoned their nerves into tremors
- throwing rings
- Boxing fighters tossed hats into rings to issue challenges
- tip origin
- Doffing your hat began as knights raising visors in trust
abraham lincoln's top hat — worn during his assassination at ford's theatre in 1865, now in the smithsonian
mad hatter tea party — lewis carroll's alice in wonderland character obsessed with hats, first appeared 1865
sorting hat — magical hat in harry potter that assigns students to hogwarts houses, 1997 onward