skull-caps

On Thursday at lunchtime, in a room overlooking the Thames, there was a gaggle of them, scattered among young men in skull-caps, young men with spiky hair and young women with long, glossy hair bouncing free.

Christina Patterson: Hijab and Civil War in the House of Lords 2009

If the British National Party had their way -- two of whose members we have just elected to represent us in Europe -- Deqa and Sara wouldn't be here, and neither would Zephaniah (who, by the way, Mandela asked to meet, and who, at his behest, has worked in some of the grimmest South African townships) and neither would those young men in skull-caps and neither would Dawn Butler.

Christina Patterson: Hijab and Civil War in the House of Lords 2009

Here they could attempt to blend in with the Bengalis with their colorful lungis and white skull-caps.

Derek Flood: From South to South: Refugees as Migrants: The Rohingya in Pakistan 2008

Bangladeshi men with white-beards shuffle by, with walking sticks and skull-caps, eyeing the three youths in their gold chains and Nike sports gear.

THE LOST GENERATION 2007

Yet despite the substantial task before them, “a dozen mechanics in shirt-like blouses, skull-caps, and pigtails are putting things to rights with diligence and dispatch.”

The Romance of China: Excursions to China in U.S. Culture: 1776-1876 2005

Fancy these heads and beards under all sorts of caps — Chinese caps, Mandarin caps, Greek skull-caps, English jockey-caps, Russian or Kuzzilbash caps,

The Paris Sketch Book 2006

Down the way, dashing and splashing, and scattering man, horse, and cart to the left and right, came an open barouche, drawn by four smoking steeds, with postilions in scarlet jackets and leather skull-caps.

Lavengro 2004

Killarney — the streets swarm with idle crowds, the innumerable little lanes flow over with dirty little children, they are playing and puddling about in the dirt everywhere, with great big eyes, yellow faces, and the queerest little gowns and skull-caps.

Notes of a Journey From Cornhill to Grand Cairo 2004

The skull-caps of plaited and blackened palm leaf, though common in the interior, are here rare; an imitation is produced by tressing the hair longitudinally from occiput to sinciput, making the head a system of ridges, divided by scalp-lines, and a fan-shaped tuft of scarlet-stained palm frond surmounts the poll.

Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003

He it was, too, who ordered his women serfs to wear tiaras after a pattern bespoken from Moscow; and to this day the peasant women on his lands do actually wear the tiaras, only they wear them over their skull-caps ....

A Sportsman's Sketches 2003