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cornercaps

cornercaps is the plural of cornercap.

Meaning of cornercap

Noun

cornercap (plural cornercaps)

  1. (obsolete) A priest's or academic's hat.
  2. (obsolete) The chief ornament.
    • Thou makest the triumviry the cornercap of society.c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Loues Labour’s Lost”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...

Questions about cornercaps

What is cornercaps the plural of?
Cornercaps is the plural of cornercap.

Words near cornercaps in the dictionary

  1. cornerboard
  2. cornerboards
  3. cornerboy
  4. cornerboys
  5. cornercap
  6. cornercaps
  7. cornered
  8. cornered the market
  9. cornered up
  10. cornerer
  11. cornerers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cornercaps (page history and authors); cornercap (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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