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cloth-cap
[ klawth-kap, kloth- ]
adjective
- pertaining to or characteristic of the working class.
cloth cap
noun
- Also calledflat cap a flat woollen cap with a stiff peak
- informal.
- a symbol of working-class ethos or origin
- ( as modifier )
cloth-cap attitudes
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Word History and Origins
Origin of cloth-cap1
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Example Sentences
Whereupon an octogenarian official approached the door of the box with his shiny, peaked, blue cloth cap in his hand.
I had shaved off my moustache and breakfasted hastily in my bedroom, ready equipped for a journey in my ulster and cloth cap.
He had discarded his shore toggery and slumped around in a cloth cap, a cardigan jacket, heavy woollen pants and carpet slippers.
He was dressed now in his Sunday suit; his hair was combed smoothly over his forehead, and his best cloth cap was in his hands.
The effect is, that each appears to be wearing a red and black cloth cap.
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