quaymaster's

Updated: June 23, 2025

Mr Philp took it from the Quaymaster's head, transferred it to his own, and, lifting it by the brim, said reverently, "If I should survive my wife," &c., to pass it on to the barber, who recited the same formula to the same ritual.

Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch - Hocken and Hunken