Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as fore-and-aft, 2.

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Examples

  • She took out of her bag a steamer-cap, and when she had put it on I could see that poor Harshaw dared not trust himself to look at her, her fair face exposed, and so very fair, in its tender, soft coloring, against that grim, wind-beaten waste of dust and sage.

    A Touch of Sun and Other Stories Mary Hallock Foote 1892

  • When the steward had left him, Jimmie pinned the two letters upon the pillow, changed the steamer-cap for an Alpine hat, and beneath a rain-coat concealed his evening clothes.

    Somewhere in France Richard Harding Davis 1890

  • Allison, all smiles and salt water, as she clung to the rail a moment later, while Mr. Forrest's steamer-cap, bumped off in the collision, rode helplessly astern on the crest of the hissing wave.

    A Tame Surrender, A Story of The Chicago Strike Charles King 1888

  • "Really, Cary," said she, as they neared Southampton, "you must go and get his address and the size of the steamer-cap."

    A Tame Surrender, A Story of The Chicago Strike Charles King 1888

  • "Remember," she said, "you are to give me your address, and I'm to send you a new steamer-cap to replace the one I knocked overboard."

    A Tame Surrender, A Story of The Chicago Strike Charles King 1888

  • He caught up the flat woolen steamer-cap which Clementina had left in her seat beside Mrs. Milray when she rose to dance, and held it aloft.

    Ragged Lady — Complete William Dean Howells 1878

  • He caught up the flat woolen steamer-cap which Clementina had left in her seat beside Mrs. Milray when she rose to dance, and held it aloft.

    Ragged Lady — Volume 2 William Dean Howells 1878

  • The larger of the two men shed his goggles, changed his steamer-cap for a slouch hat which his valet handed him, and disappeared inside, followed by the landlord.

    A Gentleman's Gentleman 1909 Francis Hopkinson Smith 1876

  • a heavy ulster, a steamer-cap well forward over his eyes.

    The False Faces Further Adventures from the History of the Lone Wolf Louis Joseph Vance 1906

  • a tweed steamer-cap, gold glasses, and a short gray overcoat with the collar turned up.

    The Camp in the Snow, or, Besieged by Danger William Murray Graydon 1905

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