[[File:Cedar Creek reenactment VA31 - cropped.jpg|thumb|Confederate reenactor wearing a black felt hat with acorn multi-colored hat cord]] A '''hatcord''' or '''hat cord''' is a circular cord around a hat at the junction of the crown and the brim. It originally served to stabilize and hold the hat on the head and to prevent the hat material separating. A '''hat band''' fulfils a similar function. Hatcords sometimes come in imaginative fashion-oriented designs.
In the Middle Ages, the hat cord was also used as a unit of measurement to control the thickness of water pipes. In order to save water, the water pipe was not allowed to be thicker than a hatcord. According to Duden, it is questionable that the German saying: ''Das geht (mir) über die Hutschnur'' ("That exceeds the hatcord [as far as I'm concerned]") meant ''das übersteigt das Maß des Erlaubten'' ("that exceed the permitted amount").<ref>[https://www.duden.de/rechtschreibung/Hutschnur Duden], Abschnitt Wendungen und Redensarten</ref>
== Literature == * Lutz Röhrich: ''Lexikon der sprichwörtlichen Redensarten''. Directmedia Publ., Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-89853-442-1, CD-ROM
== See also == * Campaign cord
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