Welsh hat
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The Welsh hat worn by women as part of Welsh national costume is a tall hat, similar to a top hat, or the capotain. It is still worn by Welsh folk-dance women, and schoolgirls, in Wales on St David's
Sydney Curnow Vosper's 1908 watercolour Salem is one of the most iconic images of Wales. It depicts four women all wearing the same hat. In reality, the "Welsh hat" hadn't been worn for decades at this point, and the artist struggled to even find one for the models to wear.
Two fans wearing the Welsh hat at an International Rugby match in Cardiff.
Lord Cawdor, whose successful bluff caused the French to surrender during the War of the First Coalition
Typical tapered Welsh hat
Cockle (bivalve)
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A cockle is a marine bivalve mollusc. Although many small edible bivalves are loosely called cockles, true cockles are species in the family Cardiidae.
Welsh hat
…to the underside of the brim. There is an 'alternative' women's hat for those who consider the traditional Welsh hat unflattering, in the form of a "cocklewoman's hat", a flat felt hat tied with ribbons on which women balanced the heavy baskets of cockles which they gathered from the coast around Carmarthen Bay…
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Acrosterigma cignorum
Ctenocardia fornicata
Ctenocardia virgo