Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
forage-cap .
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Examples
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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 Various
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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 Various
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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. Various
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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. Various
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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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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.
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868
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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.
Sandra Belloni — Volume 1 George Meredith 1868
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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
Sandra Belloni — Complete George Meredith 1868
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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.
Bouvard and Pécuchet A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life Gustave Flaubert 1850
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