subs. (old).—1. The Dons’ gallery at Cambridge; also applied to a certain part of the theatre at Oxford. [That is, ‘the place of skulls’: Cf., Luke xxiii. 33, and Matthew xxvii. 33, whence the pun: Dons being the heads of houses.]
1730. JAMES MILLER, The Humours of Oxford, Act ii., p. 23 (2nd ed.). Sirrah, I’ll have you put in the black-book, rusticated,—expelled—I’ll have you coram nobis at GOLGOTHA, where you’ll be bedevilled, Muck-worm, you will.
1785. GROSE, A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, s.v.
1791. G. HUDDESFORD, Salmagundi (Note on p. 150). GOLGOTHA, ‘The place of a Scull,’ a name ludicrously affixed to the Place in which the Heads of Colleges assemble.
1808. J. T. CONYBEARE in C. K. Sharpe’s Correspondence (1888), i., 324. The subject then, of the ensuing section is Oxford News … we will begin by GOLGOTHA … Cole has already obtained the Headship of Exeter, and Mr. Griffiths … is to have that of University.
2. (common).—Hence, a hat.
ENGLISH SYNONYMS.—Battle of the Nile (rhyming, i.e., a TILE (q.v.); bell-topper; billy-cock; beaver; box-hat; cady; canister cap; castor; chummy; cathedral; chimney; chimney-pot; cock; colleger; cock-and-pinch; cowshooter; David; deer-stalker; digger’s delight; fantail; felt; Gibus; gomer (Winchester); goss; moab; molocher; mortarboard; muffin-cap; mushroom; nab; nap; napper; pantile; pimple-cover; pill-box; plug-hat; pot; shako; shovel; sleepless hat; sou’wester; stove-pipe; strawer; thatch; tile; topper; truck; upper-crust; wash-pot; wee-jee; wide-awake.
FRENCH SYNONYMS.—Un accordéon (popular: an opera hat); une ardoise (= a tile); une bâche (thieves’: also an awning); une biscope or viscope (vulgar); un blockaus (vulgar: a shako); un bloumard or une bloume (popular); une boîte à cornes (a horn case; i.e., a cover for a cuckold); un Bolivar (from the hero of 1820); un boisseau (also = a bushel); un bosselard (schoolboys’: from bosselé = bruised or dented); un cabas (popular: = old hat; also basket or bag); un cadratin (printers’ = a stove-pipe); un caloquet (thieves’); cambriau, cambrieux, or cambriot (popular); un capet (from old French, capel); une capsule (popular = a percussion cap); un carbeluche galicé (a silk hat); une casque (= helmet); un chapska (= a shako); une cheminée (popular: = chimney-pot); une corniche (popular: = a cornice); un couvercle (popular: = potlid); une couvrante; un couvre-amour (military); un cylindre (= a stove-pipe); un Desfoux (from the maker’s name); un epicéphale (students’: from the Greek); un gadin (an old hat); un galure or galurin (popular); un Garibaldi; un Gibus (from the inventor’s name); un lampion (thieves’: = grease-pot); un loubion (thieves’); un marquin (thieves’); un monument (popular); un nid d’hirondelle; un niolle (thieves’: an old hat); un tromblon (obsolete = blunderbuss); un tubard, tube, or tube à haute pression (= a cylinder); une tuile (= a tile); une tuyau de poêle (= a stove-pipe).
GERMAN SYNONYMS.—Bre (Viennese); Kowe (from the Hebrew, kowa).
ITALIAN SYNONYMS.—Bufala, baccha or biffacha; cresta or cristiana (= a cruet); fungo (= mushroom).
SPANISH SYNONYMS.—Tejado or techo (= tiled roof).
