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- adjective Resembling a
cap .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The scientist took from a cabinet two caplike contrivances, one of which he handed to Hardy.
"Master Control" by Harl Vincent, part 4 Johnny Pez 2010
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He smuggled in boy's clothes and a man's caplike the one the goaler wore, but just as she was passing the gate all her hair fell down and they called out 'Une aristocrate, une aristocrate.'
The Quiet American Greene, Graham, 1904-1991 1955
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The leader of the visitors held out one of the several headsets they had brought, caplike things, made of laminated metal apparently.
Invaders from the Infinite John Wood Campbell 1940
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Which came first - the bicycle helmet or the caplike fashion visor?
NYT > Home Page By CHELSEA ZALOPANY 2011
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