shingle cap en · NOUN
Meanings
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A woman's tight-fitting cloth hat popular in the early twentieth century.
'She had on a shingle cap and I only saw the back of her head.'
1934, Agatha Christie, chapter 11, in Murder on the Orient Express, London: HarperCollins, published 2017, page 154:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| shingle caps | Number=Plur | lexicographic |