subs. (common).—A sort of round hat with a long leathern fan-shaped flap at the back; worn by coal-heavers and dustmen; a SOU’-WESTER (q.v.).
1851–61. H. MAYHEW, London Labour and the London Poor, vol. II., p. 199. He had good strong lace boots, gray worsted stockings, a stout pair of corduroy breeches, a short smockfrock and FANTAIL.
1877. GREENWOOD, Dick Temple, ch. xiii. I fancy I see you, for example, with knee breeches and calves and a FANTAIL, shouldering an inky sack and shooting its contents into a hole in the pavement.
