Definition of Sailor cap

1. Noun. A cap worn by sailors.

Generic synonyms: Cap

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sailor Cap

sailing under false colors
sailing vessel
sailing vessels
sailings
sailless
sailmaker
sailmakers
sailmaking
sailor
sailor's-choice
sailor's breastplate
sailor's hitch
sailor's hitches
sailor's skin
sailor boy
sailor cap (current term)
sailor dive
sailor suit
sailor suits
sailorlike
sailorly
sailorman
sailormen
sailors
sailors choice
sailorwoman
sailorwomen
sailour
sailours
sailplane

Literary usage of Sailor cap

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Select Collection of Old Plays: In Twelve Volumes by Robert Dodsley, Isaac Reed, Octavius Gilchrist, John Payne Collier (1825)
"I tell you, a sailor's cap; 'slight, God forgive me, ... A sailor's cap ? how shall she put it off When thou present'st her to our company ? sailor. ..."

2. The Three Comrades by Gustav Frenssen (1907)
"Yes, they were both coming: the fair girl, a true Frisian figure, tall and slender, and beside her her father in his sailor's cap and suit, not any taller ..."

3. Naval Hygiene by James Chambers Pryor (1918)
"A removable I grommet is worn within the cap and serves to produce the disk- >ed cap, known as a sailor's cap. In windy weather the flat cap ..."

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