furcap

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From fur +‎ cap.

Noun[edit]

furcap (plural furcaps)

  1. A cap made of fur.
    • 1971, Miron Constantinescu, “The Act of Union, 1st December 1918”, in Miron Constantinescu, Ştefan Pascu, editors, Unification of the Romanian National State: The Union of Transylvania with Old Romania (Bibliotheca Historica Romaniae Monographs; VII), Bucharest: Publishing House of the Academy of the Socialist Republic of Romania, section 9 (The Great Assembly at Alba Iulia), page 277:
      “[…] clad in white coarse peasant coats and high furcaps, and with guns on their shoulders, bright-eyed, they are the first to climb the citadel and there they scan the horizon with their eagle eyes, awaken to freedom”.
    • 1974, Lin Carter, The Valley Where Time Stood Still, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, Inc., →ISBN, page 7:
      Low-clansmen are coarser of feature and wear their furcaps trimmed in a different fashion.
    • 2015, Boman Desai, Trio: A Novel Biography of the Schumanns and Brahms, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 234:
      The people wore huge furcoats and furcaps covering their faces, peepholes for noses; […]
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