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abacot

abacot is the alternative spelling of bycoket.

Meaning of bycoket

Noun

bycoket (plural bycokets)

  1. (historical) A type of medieval cap with a wide brim that comes to a point in the front and is turned up at the rear, originally worn by Western European nobility and royalty.

Origin of abacot

From a series of mistranscriptions and misprints, from "a bycoket" to "a bicoket" to "abocoket" to "abocoke" to, at last, "abacot".

Questions about abacot

What is abacot the alternative spelling of?
Abacot is the alternative spelling of bycoket.

Words near abacot in the dictionary

  1. Abaco
  2. Abaco Islands
  3. abacomancy
  4. abacost
  5. abacosts
  6. abacot
  7. abacs
  8. abacter
  9. abacteraemic
  10. abacteremic
  11. abacterial

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Adapted from Wiktionary: abacot (page history and authors); bycoket (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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