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flier n Cp OED fly sb1 7 b 'head-dress' obs (1773, 1774). A white band fastened to the cap of a pall-bearer.
   1971 CASEY 302 The pall-bearers would have white fliers, a white band around their caps, and the women [mourners] they'd have a veil, a black veil come right down to their waist, right over their head.

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