chapeau-de-bras

Under one arm he carried a huge chapeau-de-bras, and under the other a fiddle nearly five times as big as himself.

Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque. In Two Volumes. Vol. I 1840

Under one arm he carried a huge chapeau-de-bras, and under the other a fiddle nearly five times as big as himself.

The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 4 Edgar Allan Poe 1829

But the little chap seized him at once by the nose, gave it a swing and a pull, clapped the big chapeau-de-bras upon his head, knocked it down over his eyes and mouth, and then, lifting up the big fiddle, beat him with it so long and so soundly, that what with the belfry-man being so fat, and the fiddle being so hollow, you would have sworn there was a regiment of double-bass drummers all beating the devil's tattoo up in the belfry of the steeple of Vondervotteimittiss.

Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque. In Two Volumes. Vol. I 1840