coxcomb —
“Here's my,”
KING LEAR, i. 4. 94
;
“take my coxcomb,”
KING LEAR, i. 4. 96
,100 ;
“wear my coxcomb,”
KING LEAR, i. 4. 103
;
“two coxcombs,”
KING LEAR, i. 4. 104
;
“my coxcombs,”
KING LEAR, i. 4. 107.
“It was a fashion certainly as old as the middle of the
fourteenth century, to decorate the head of the domestic fool with a comb, like that of a
cock; but frequently the apex of the hood took the form of the neck and the head of a
cock, etc. ”
(FAIRHOLT)
.