Definitions
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Same as forage-cap.
Etymologies
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Examples
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With great alacrity he threw aside his foraging-cap, stripped off his pouch-belt and uniform coat, and unfastened his spurs.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 361, November, 1845.
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The dragoon's sabre and his brass and leopard-skin helmet were hanging at the saddle-bow, their owner having temporarily covered his head with a smart foraging-cap of green and scarlet cloth, which set off to great advantage his bearded and martial countenance.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 361, November, 1845.
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At each extremity of the street-front there is a spacious and hospitably open gateway, lounging about which I saw some gray veterans in long scarlet coats of an antique fashion, and the cocked hats of a century ago, or occasionally a modern foraging-cap.
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As I had expected, nothing was heard of Van Haubitz, nor any vestige of him found, save the foraging-cap I had picked up.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847
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The foraging-cap, which Madame Sendel immediately recognised, removed all uncertainty.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847
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Sunshine had burst on them suddenly, and there was no hat to be found for Emilia, so Wilfrid placed his gold-laced foraging-cap on her head, and the ladies, after a moment's misgiving, allowed her to wear it, and turned to observe her now and then.
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Sunshine had burst on them suddenly, and there was no hat to be found for Emilia, so Wilfrid placed his gold-laced foraging-cap on her head, and the ladies, after
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There he comes, a plain-looking unromantic man in a foraging-cap, with a blue surtout and brass buttons, about as like to a sea-king as a man-of-war is to a muffin.
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Heurtaux wore a foraging-cap, and Alexandre Petit, the new schoolmaster, had put on his frock-coat, a threadbare green garment -- his Sunday coat.
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The captain dreamed of it under his foraging-cap while puffing at his pipe, and the schoolmaster too in his school, and the curé also between two prayers, so that he sometimes surprised himself with his eyes towards heaven, in the act of saying, "Grant, O my God, that I may be a deputy!"
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