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white⋅cap

  [hwahyt-kap, wahyt-]
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–noun
a wave with a broken and foaming white crest.
Origin:
1660–70; white + cap 1
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white·cap   (hwīt'kāp', wīt'-)   
n.  A wave with a crest of foam.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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whitecap 
1668, of birds, from white + cap. Attested from 1773 in ref. to breaking waves, from 1818 of mushrooms, and from 1891 in ref. to "one of a self-constituted band in U.S. who committed outrages under pretense of regulating public morals" [OED].
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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