crape-rag

Updated: June 27, 2025

First came a crack which sent a long dusky white hat that looked damp and deep like a well, and had a long black crape-rag twisted round it first came a crack which sent this white hat spinning over the gentleman's cab and scattered among the crowd a vast number of things which the cabman kept in it, such as a ball of string, a piece of candle, a comb, a whip-lash, a little warbler, a slice of bacon, &c. &c.

William Makepeace Thackeray - Burlesques