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shingle cap

shingle cap noun: a woman's tight-fitting cloth hat popular in the early twentieth century.

Noun

shingle cap (plural shingle caps)

  1. A woman's tight-fitting cloth hat popular in the early twentieth century.
    • 'She had on a shingle cap and I only saw the back of her head.'1934, Agatha Christie, chapter 11, in Murder on the Orient Express, London: HarperCollins, published 2017, page 154

Forms of shingle cap

pluralshingle caps

Questions about shingle cap

What does shingle cap mean?
Shingle cap means a woman's tight-fitting cloth hat popular in the early twentieth century.
What part of speech is shingle cap?
Shingle cap is a noun.
What is the plural of shingle cap?
The plural of shingle cap is shingle caps.

Words near shingle cap in the dictionary

  1. shingitai
  2. Shingju
  3. Shingkhar
  4. shingle
  5. shingle bob
  6. shingle cap
  7. shingle caps
  8. shingle oak
  9. shingle oaks
  10. Shingle Springs
  11. shingle up

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