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whitecapped en · ADJ

Etymology

From white + capped.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable, poetic) Capped with whiteness (such as snow or sea foam).
    • And Ms. Davies’s 7,000-square-foot guesthouse, the only building from the original estate to survive, is already a favorite among card-playing foursomes and others who want to lounge on the second-story deck and watch dolphins bob in the whitecapped waves. 2009 August 30, Laura M. Holson, “A Dip Into Hollywood”, in New York Times:
    • I went to the Tucson Gem Trade Exhibition and then flew over brown and whitecapped mountain ridges and giant green squares to New York City. 2003, Kadiatou Diallo, Craig Thomas Wolff, My heart will cross this ocean: my story, my son, Amadou: