Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A soft cap of a form convenient for travelers.

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Examples

  • He darted at the closet and yanked out his ineffectual city raincoat and rubbers, and the dreary wreck of what had once been his pert new vacation traveling-cap.

    The Innocents A Story for Lovers Sinclair Lewis 1918

  • He put on his traveling-cap and sat down wearily, keeping his head near the window.

    The Song of the Lark by Willa Cather 1915

  • The minister put his violin in its case and caught up a black-and-white checked traveling-cap that he wore when he rode his high Columbia wheel.

    The Song of the Lark by Willa Cather 1915

  • The minister put his violin in its case and caught up a black-and-white checked traveling-cap that he wore when he rode his high Columbia wheel.

    The song of the lark 1915

  • He put on his traveling-cap and sat down wearily, keeping his head near the window.

    The song of the lark 1915

  • It was an infringement of the rule which insists upon the tall hat behind the scenes; but in France foreigners are allowed every license: the Englishman his traveling-cap, the Persian his cap of astrakhan.

    The Phantom of the Opera 1911

  • The minister put his violin in its case and caught up a black-and-white checked traveling-cap that he wore when he rode his high Columbia wheel.

    The Song of the Lark Willa Sibert Cather 1910

  • He put on his traveling-cap and sat down wearily, keeping his head near the window.

    The Song of the Lark Willa Sibert Cather 1910

  • He had changed his clothing, but adopted no other disguise than a traveling-cap pulled well down over his eyes.

    The Strange Case of Mortimer Fenley Louis Tracy 1895

  • Valentins took the refreshment they needed most by pacing the platform up and down, -- the tall daughter, in her severely cut clothes, shortening her boyish stride to match her mother's step; the mother, looking older than she need, in a light-gray traveling-cap, with Elsie's golf cape thrown over her silk waist.

    A Touch of Sun and Other Stories Mary Hallock Foote 1892

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