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English Dictionary: Callot by the DICT Development Group
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Callot \Cal"lot\, n.
      A plant coif or skullcap. Same as {Calotte}. --B. Jonson.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   d8Calotte \[d8]Ca*lotte"\, Callot \Cal"lot\, n. [F. calotte,
      dim. of cale a sort of flat cap. Cf. {Caul}.]
      A close cap without visor or brim. Especially:
      (a) Such a cap, worn by English serjeants at law.
      (b) Such a cap, worn by the French cavalry under their
            helmets.
      (c) Such a cap, worn by the clergy of the Roman Catholic
            Church.
  
      {To assume the calotte}, to become a priest.
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