cap-and-tassel

Updated: May 7, 2025

The next morning the Degree was conferred in the theatre, Doctor of Common Law "an appropriate one", the Master of Balliol remarked, "though 'Surgeon' would perhaps be the mot juste"; and thus at last Hogarth donned cap-and-tassel, though not Frankl's a livery which drew from Harris the reflection: "Sweet beauty! in his mortarboard". The nip upon the brow of the college-cap peak resembled the nip of the Scotch prison-cap, awaking memories: but the symbolism was different.

M. P. (Matthew Phipps) Shiel - The Lord of the Sea