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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024big•gin1 (big′in),USA pronunciation n. [Archaic.]- Clothinga close-fitting cap worn esp. by children in the 16th and 17th centuries.
- Clothinga soft cap worn while sleeping;
nightcap.
- Middle French beguin kind of hood or cap, origin, originally one worn by a Beguine
- 1520–30
- a coffeepot, usually silver, having a separate container in which the coffee is immersed while being boiled.
- after Biggin, the name of its early 19th-century inventor
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