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red-capped en · ADJ

Etymology

From red + capped.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Having a red cap.
    • While they watered and washed their horses, I talked with a red-capped man, some kind of chief. 2008, Oisin Curran, Mopus, page 34:
    • Everywhere they have the right to go! to ferret and to spy, to listen, to search, to interrogate--the red-capped Company is paid for what it can find. 2014, Emmauska Orczy, Lord Tony's Wife:
    • What they saw made even Wally lose his faith in human honesty, for there were Beth and Eddie, running along the bank upstream, their eyes on the water, their fingers pointing toward the river, where not one, not two, but three of the boys' red-capped bottles were bobbing along on the current. 2009, Phyllis Reynolds Naylor, The Girls Take Over: