A kind of hatters’ cloth.
1796. Richard Robinson has on hand an assortment of Beaver, Castor, and Roram Hats.—The Aurora, Phila., Jan. 2.
1799. “A white roram hat.” Description of an escaped prisoner.—Farmer’s Register, Greensburg, Pa., Sept. 6.
1804. Advt. for two runaway blacksmith’s apprentices. One had on “a new roram hat,” the other “a half-worn roram hat with a buckle and ribband.”—Lancaster (Pa.) Journal, Jan. 14.
1807. [A runaway apprentice] had on and took with him a suit of summer clothes of a bluish ground, a black silk waistcoat, and a new roram hat.—Id., July 3.
1848. Purchasing a white roram hat (which to my great grief was stolen in less than a month after I reached Cincinnati).—Dr. D. Drake, ‘Pioneer Life in Kentucky,’ p. 229.
