jockey-cap

• “She reined in the colt, adjusted her jockey-cap, and pulled her dog-skin gauntlets further over her sleeves.”

  Flint His Faults, His Friendships and His Fortunes

• “However, when she came downstairs at the appointed time, in her brown velvet jockey-cap, top-boots, breeches and gloves complete, she looked so determined and efficient I felt reassured.”

  Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-01-28

• “George liked riding, and had taught her to ride; and she now perpetually made her appearance in her riding-habit and little jockey-cap, wishing she could do something for me here or there.”

  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 73, November, 1863

• “The dome of the Corn Market is a jockey-cap set on the top of a high ladder.”

  II. A Bird’s-Eye View of Paris. Book III

• “Without reason, against prudence, and at a moment's notice, he fell in love with a frivolous, golden-haired girl who used to tear about Simla Mall on a high, rough waler, with a blue velvet jockey-cap crammed over her eyes.”

  Indian Tales

• “I exchanged my laced hat for a jockey-cap, and made some progress in their opinion; I broke a young colt in a manner which carried me further into their good graces.”

  Rob Roy

• “On the next Saturday, as Mr. Ashburn was walking over his farm, he saw a man sitting on one of his fences, dressed in a jockey-cap, and wearing a short hunting-coat.”

  Off-Hand Sketches

• “I was full of sorrow, but, by one of those whimsical thoughts which come unbidden into our heads, in times of deepest grief, I no sooner saw the bonnet than I was reminded of a helmet; and in that hybrid bonnet, half helmet, half jockey-cap, did Miss”

  Cranford

• “Miss Jenkyns wore a cravat, and a little bonnet like a jockey-cap, and altogether had the appearance of a strong-minded woman; although she would have despised the modern idea of women being equal to men.”

  Cranford

• “The tumult thickened; I caught glimpses of the jockey-cap of old Christy, like the helmet of a chieftain, bobbing about in the midst of the scuffle; whilst Mistress Hannah, separated from her doughty protector, was squalling and striking at right and left with a faded parasol; being tossed and tousled about by the crowd in such wise as never happened to maiden gentle woman before.”

  Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists

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