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biggin

[big-in]

noun Archaic.

a close-fitting cap worn especially by children in the 16th and 17th centuries.

a soft cap worn while sleeping; nightcap.

Origin:
1520–30; < Middle French beguin kind of hood or cap, orig. one worn by a Beguine

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noun

a coffeepot, usually silver, having a separate container in which the coffee is immersed while being boiled.

Origin:
after Biggin, the name of its early 19th-century inventor

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biggin or biggon¹ (ˈbɪɡɪn)

—n
	a plain close-fitting cap, often tying under the chin, worn in the Middle Ages and by children in the 17th century

[C16: from French béguin; see beguine]

biggon or biggon¹

—n

[C16: from French béguin; see beguine]

biggin² (ˈbɪɡən)

—n
	(Scot) a construction, esp a house or cottage

[see big²]

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