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priestcaps

priestcaps is the plural of priestcap.

Meaning of priestcap

Noun

priestcap (plural priestcaps)

  1. A skullcap.
    • At one point where the path ran close to Westring-park proper, the park on higher ground, a grass-bank seven feet high dividing them, he was a-top of the bank in caftan, priest-cap, and phylacteries, taking snuff—Baruch Frankl2014, Matthew Phipps Shiel, The Lord of the Sea
  2. A form of redan in fortifications; a swallowtail.
    • One led from Dryea's Battery toward the Priestcap and by various windings to within about twenty yards of the parapet.1894, D.H. Hanaburgh, History of the One Hundred and Twenty-eighth Regiment: New York Volunteers (US Infantry): in the Late Civil War, page 66

Questions about priestcaps

What is priestcaps the plural of?
Priestcaps is the plural of priestcap.

Words near priestcaps in the dictionary

  1. priest-monk
  2. priest-monks
  3. priest-ridden
  4. priestal
  5. priestcap
  6. priestcaps
  7. priestcraft
  8. priestcrafts
  9. priestdom
  10. priestdoms
  11. priested

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