“The hat is the ultimum moriens of "respectability."”

—  Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Ultimum moriens," the Autocrat explains, "is old Italian [i.e. Latin], and signifies last thing to die."
The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table (1858)

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