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- noun Alternative spelling of
chapka .
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Examples
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Aleksandr Dmitrivich Doctorov stood in the doorway, hands buried in the pockets of his black trenchcoat, a fur schapska perched on his balding head.
Countdown Douglass, Keith 1994
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Passing the sofa, I noticed his uniform laid out -- he had to wait on the General that morning -- and, seizing his schapska, I made use of it as a buckler.
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Some were very tall, the shaft crowned with a platform larger than the head, like the shako of an Imperial Lancer; others very low, ending in an inverted cone -- the mouth of a blunderbuss or a Polish schapska.
The Cathedral 1877
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Passing the sofa, I noticed his uniform laid out -- he had to wait on the General that morning -- and, seizing his schapska, I made use of it as a buckler.
Monsieur, Madame, and Bebe — Complete Gustave Droz 1863
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