whitecapped

English

Etymology

white +‎ capped

Adjective

whitecapped (not comparable)

1. (poetic) Capped with whiteness (such as snow or sea foam).
   • 2003, Kadiatou Diallo, Craig Thomas Wolff, My heart will cross this ocean: my story, my son, Amadou:

     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.

   • 2009 August 30, Laura M. Holson, “A Dip Into Hollywood”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     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.