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the only hat designed so you can throw it the instant you own it.
means A stiff, flat square cap worn at academic graduation ceremonies, topped with a tassel and balanced on the head.
from Named for its resemblance to a bricklayer's mortarboard — the flat square board on which masons carry and mix mortar. That tool's name comes via Old French 'mortier' from Latin 'mortarium' (a mixing bowl or trough). The academic cap picked up the nickname in the 19th century because its rigid square top looked just like the workman's plain wooden plate.
- name origin
- Named for the flat board masons hold mortar on.
- the tassel
- Moving it side to side marks your graduation.
- medieval roots
- Descends from caps worn by clergy and scholars.
- the toss
- Mass cap-throwing started at a 1912 naval academy.
- square symbolism
- The flat top echoes a scholar's open book.
for instance
flat academic cap — traditional graduation headwear worn at ceremonies since the 16th century at oxford and cambridge