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caubeen

caubeen noun: an Irish beret, formerly worn by peasants, later also adopted for army use.

caubeen: an Irish beret, formerly worn by peasants, later also adopted for army use
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Noun

caubeen (plural caubeens)

  1. An Irish beret, formerly worn by peasants, later also adopted for army use.
    • [A] bare-legged Celtic brother of the gentle craft, somewhat at the wrong side of forty, with a turf-coloured caubeen, patched frieze, a clear brown complexion, dark-grey eyes, and a right pleasant dash of roguery in his features […].1850, Le Fanu, Billy Maloney's Taste of Love and Glory
    • Stephen looked down on a wide headless caubeen, hung on his ashplanthandle over his knee.1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[Episode 9: Scylla and Charybdis]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC, part II [Odyssey], page 184

Forms of caubeen

pluralcaubeens

Origin of caubeen

From Irish cáibín, from cába (“cape”), from cappa (“cape”)

Questions about caubeen

What does caubeen mean?
Caubeen means an Irish beret, formerly worn by peasants, later also adopted for army use.
What part of speech is caubeen?
Caubeen is a noun.
What is the plural of caubeen?
The plural of caubeen is caubeens.

Words near caubeen in the dictionary

  1. catywampus
  2. Catz
  3. catànies
  4. CAU
  5. Cauayan
  6. caubeen
  7. caubeens
  8. Caubian
  9. Cauble
  10. Caubles
  11. Caubool

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