diff --git a/dat/data.base b/dat/data.base
index 9bced34e8..1a6f8acb0 100644
--- a/dat/data.base
+++ b/dat/data.base
@@ -1057,6 +1057,11 @@ tiff
 	Blind Pew:  Oh.  Must have been more of a tiff then.
 		[ Yellowbeard, directed by Mel Damski, screenplay
 		  by Graham Chapman, Peter Cook, Bernard McKenna ]
+conical hat
+	You couldn't escape the pointy hat, though. There was nothing magical
+	about a pointy hat except that it said that the woman underneath it
+	was a witch. People paid attention to a pointy hat.
+		[ Wintersmith, by Terry Pratchett ]
 # not "*cope" because that would match "stethoscope"
 cope
 * cope