The Cluricawne of Monaghan wore "a swallow-tailed evening coat of red with green vest, white breeches, black stockings," shiny shoes, and a "long cone hat without a brim," sometimes used as a weapon.
All three of them, however, wore unremarkable race going clothes, not white cone hats, bobbles and red noses.
The first consisted of caviar on a little bed of red cabbage (actually nearly blue) and a cone "hat" of jellied beef surrounded by a vinegar sauce and polka dots of sliced carrot.
It became popular after Bessie McCoy's animated performance in a satin Pierrot clown costume with floppy gloves and a cone hat.
Even the jokes (children donning aluminum-foil cone hats to ward off aliens, for instance) are freighted with metaphysical solemnity.
The Paradise River contingent thought Ika's cone hat a definite improvement over the sheets of metal they were used to using for protection if they were caught out in Fall.
One night when the circus is in town, four clowns with cone hats appear at his bedroom window with a professor who summons him to visit King Morpheus in Slumberland.
Cordelia crouched glaring at the other witch-but between them was a storybook witch, complete with cone hat, broomstick, hooked nose, warts, and insane cackle, hands clawing at the child.
They took particular pleasure in the antics of Punchinello, a long-nosed clown with white clothes and a cone hat.
There was a cone hat on her head, but she somehow made it look more dignified than one had any right to expect.