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<h2 id="forms">Forms</h2> <p>The cap and bells could be in the following forms:<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:4" href="#fn:4"><sup>4</sup></a> </p> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Asinus/Du4oG0Yz">Ass</a>' ears and an <a href="/facts/Donkey/xkn4K2IJ">ass</a>' tail, often curling forward<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:5" href="#fn:5"><sup>5</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:6" href="#fn:6"><sup>6</sup></a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Horn_(anatomy)/gr4cBp62">Horns</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:7" href="#fn:7"><sup>7</sup></a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Comb_(anatomy)/FPnDW1o8">Cockscomb crest</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:8" href="#fn:8"><sup>8</sup></a></li> <li>Royal court jester costume</li> <li>Bi-color coxcomb cap</li> <li>Fool's cap and masque</li></ul> <p>Other forms of fool's cap in England were shaped like a <a href="/facts/Monk/mDhTrNcB">monk</a>'s <a href="/facts/Cowl/KfmxSwS1">cowl</a> with ass's ears, a high-pointed cap covered with bells, or a round cap with an imposing feather.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:9" href="#fn:9"><sup>9</sup></a>[<i>unreliable source?</i>] </p> <h2 id="gallery">Gallery</h2> Wikimedia Commons has media related to Cap and bells. <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>Lucy Barton, Historic Costumes for the Stage, p. 221 <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=DTQjMTqMqlIC&pg=PA221" target="_blank">https://books.google.com/books?id=DTQjMTqMqlIC&pg=PA221</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>ISBN 1412834988, p. 113 <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" target="_blank">/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:4"><p>Lucy Barton, Historic Costumes for the Stage, p. 221 <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=DTQjMTqMqlIC&pg=PA221" target="_blank">https://books.google.com/books?id=DTQjMTqMqlIC&pg=PA221</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:5"><p>Lucy Barton, Historic Costumes for the Stage, p. 221 <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=DTQjMTqMqlIC&pg=PA221" target="_blank">https://books.google.com/books?id=DTQjMTqMqlIC&pg=PA221</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:6"><p>ISBN 1412834988, p. 113 <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" target="_blank">/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)</a> <a href="#fnref:6" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:7"><p>Lucy Barton, Historic Costumes for the Stage, p. 221 <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=DTQjMTqMqlIC&pg=PA221" target="_blank">https://books.google.com/books?id=DTQjMTqMqlIC&pg=PA221</a> <a href="#fnref:7" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:8"><p>Lucy Barton, Historic Costumes for the Stage, p. 221 <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=DTQjMTqMqlIC&pg=PA221" target="_blank">https://books.google.com/books?id=DTQjMTqMqlIC&pg=PA221</a> <a href="#fnref:8" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:9"><p>Singleton, Esther (1891). "The Court Jesters of England". Cosmopolitan. Vol. 11. p. 445. <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=k90RAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA445" target="_blank">https://books.google.com/books?id=k90RAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA445</a> <a href="#fnref:9" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>