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The Coppola is a traditional kind of flat cap
Flat cap

A flat cap is a rounded men's cap with a small stiff brim in front. Cloths used to make the cap range from tweed to cotton driving caps for summer wear, sometimes featuring air vents....
 typically worn in Sicily
Sicily

Sicily is an Autonomous regions with special statute of Italy. Of all the regions of Italy, Sicily covers the largest land area at 25,708 km? and currently has just over five million inhabitants....
. First used by English nobles during the late 1700s, the coppola began being used in Sicily in the early 1900s as a driving cap
Flat cap

A flat cap is a rounded men's cap with a small stiff brim in front. Cloths used to make the cap range from tweed to cotton driving caps for summer wear, sometimes featuring air vents....
, usually worn when at the wheel driving the car. The Coppola is usually made in tweed
Tweed (cloth)

Tweed is a rough, unfinished woolen textile, of a soft, open, flexible texture resembling Cheviot_ or Spinning #Hand spinning, but more closely weaving....
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The origin of the name coppola is likely to be a Sicilian adaptation of the English word cap. By extension, coppola is also Sicilian
Sicilian language

Sicilian is a Romance language. Its dialects comprise the Italiano Meridionale-estremo language group, which are spoken on the island of Sicily and its satellite islands; in southern and central Calabria ; in the southern parts of Apulia, the Salento ; and Campania, on the Italian mainland, where it is called Cilentano ....
 for head
Head

In anatomy, the head of an animal is the rostral part that usually comprises the brain, eyes, ears, nose, and mouth . Some very simple animals may not have a head, but many bilateria do....
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The Coppola is a traditional kind of flat cap
Flat cap

A flat cap is a rounded men's cap with a small stiff brim in front. Cloths used to make the cap range from tweed to cotton driving caps for summer wear, sometimes featuring air vents....
 typically worn in Sicily
Sicily

Sicily is an Autonomous regions with special statute of Italy. Of all the regions of Italy, Sicily covers the largest land area at 25,708 km? and currently has just over five million inhabitants....
. First used by English nobles during the late 1700s, the coppola began being used in Sicily in the early 1900s as a driving cap
Flat cap

A flat cap is a rounded men's cap with a small stiff brim in front. Cloths used to make the cap range from tweed to cotton driving caps for summer wear, sometimes featuring air vents....
, usually worn when at the wheel driving the car. The Coppola is usually made in tweed
Tweed (cloth)

Tweed is a rough, unfinished woolen textile, of a soft, open, flexible texture resembling Cheviot_ or Spinning #Hand spinning, but more closely weaving....
.

The origin of the name coppola is likely to be a Sicilian adaptation of the English word cap. By extension, coppola is also Sicilian
Sicilian language

Sicilian is a Romance language. Its dialects comprise the Italiano Meridionale-estremo language group, which are spoken on the island of Sicily and its satellite islands; in southern and central Calabria ; in the southern parts of Apulia, the Salento ; and Campania, on the Italian mainland, where it is called Cilentano ....
 for head
Head

In anatomy, the head of an animal is the rostral part that usually comprises the brain, eyes, ears, nose, and mouth . Some very simple animals may not have a head, but many bilateria do....
. The word coppola then became popular also in the rest of Italy, and was quickly acquired by Italian language
Italian language

Italian is a Romance languages spoken by about 63 million people as a first language, primarily in Italy. In Switzerland, Italian is one of four Linguistic geography of Switzerlands....
 by extension. Today, the coppola is widely regarded, at least in Italy, as a definitive symbol of Sicilian heritage.

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