dust cap

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Noun[edit]

dust cap (plural dust caps)

  1. Something worn to protect one from dust; a cover placed over something to keep off dust.
    • 1899, Kate Chopin, The Awakening:
      Ellen brought him one of her dust-caps, and went into contortions of mirth, which she found it impossible to control, when she saw him put it on before the mirror as grotesquely as he could.
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