Dick's hatband

Dick's hatband
   obsolete
   an indication of male homosexuality
   Punning on the crown which the effete Richard Cromwell was unfit to wear in succession to his mighty father, Oliver, and the discoloration:
    Hello, thinks I, he ain't one of the Dick's hatband brigade, surely. (Fraser, 1977, writing in 19th-century style)
   To wear Dick's hatband was to be known as a male homosexual.

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