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*macaroni:		small tricorne adopted by fashion extremists of the Macaroni Club of London in 1760, who were Italian travelers.
* mackinaw:		U.S. man's straw hat, coarse brim
*mahrharmah:		Turkish woman's hood covers face
*Mandarin hat:		popular black silk hat with deep turned up brim, pointed crown with button on top, worn by Chinese nobles of Manchu dynasty
*mandel:		a turban woven with silk and gold
*mantilla:		18th century France, lace head scarf, 19th century Spanish and Mexican headdress of lace with high comb
*mantel:		up to the 12th century, Catholic woman's head covering
*marquise hat:		18th century ladies hat
*matador, bullfighter hat:		shape of bull's head, short stubby horns,
*merry widow hat:		1907 century, fashioned for operetta "Merry Widow by Franz Lehar. Large hat with wide brim
*milkmaid hat:		18th century country fashion garden hat low crown wide brim tied with ribbon under chin.
*mitreboard:		head-cover worn by bishops, characterized by two peaks
*mob cap:		18th century, indoors and outdoors, lace cap with large ribbon bow
*Monmouth:		made in Monmouth England, knitted woolen cap with turned up band, type of stocking cap
*Montego:		palm hat from Montego Bay, Jamaica
*montero:		15th -17th century, round crowned cap with divided flap that could be turned up or worn down, form of cap still worn by huntsmen and farmers
*Montgomery beret:		type of British beret worn by Sir Montgomery in W.W.II
*morian cabaset:		16th century, kettle hat, used in infantry, skull with broad brim, flat, turned down at sides.
*mortarboard:		flat, square, worn by professors and students for solemn academic occasions
*mourning bonnet:		black bonnet worn by widows during the 19th century
*muffin cap:		similar shape of a flat bun, popular children's hat
*Muller cut down:		flat crowned bowler worn after the murderer named Muller had worn one.
*mushroom hat:		a hat with a mushroom-like, downward curved brim, known as a Tiffany in Italy from the hat worn by Audrey Hepburn in the film "Breakfast at Tiffany's."
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*nap:		19th century term for corides with applied cod-wool or camel hair nap on the crown,
*newsboy:		worn by newsboys, large, soft, 8 paneled fabric cap with visor
*night cap:		men's cap worn informally indoors from the 16th to the 19th century.
*niqab:		face veil worn by Islamic women, together with the hijab
*Nithsdale:		raveling cloak with hood 1716. Lady Nithsdale disguised her Jacobite husband and help him escape from the Tower of London
*Nirvernois:		small cocked hat 1780 named after the Duke of Nevenois
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*Olicula:		hooded cape worn by Roman women
*opera hat:		collapsible top hat with an internal spring, so that it could be flattened and carried under the arm.
*optimo:		panama hat with full crown with ridge extending from front to back
*overseas cap:		olive drab cloth cap worn by soldiers in both world wars then picked up again in 1979 and 1981