cloth cap

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cloth cap (plural cloth caps)

  1. (UK) A man's flat woollen cap with a peak.
    • 1961 March, ""Balmore"", “Driving and firing modern French steam locomotives”, in Trains Illustrated, page 148:
      Our relief at Paris was a mécanicien looking like a Darnall "Grinder" in his cloth cap with a button on top - and no goggles either.
    • 2020 December 30, Tim Dunn, “The railway's mechanical marvels”, in Rail, page 55:
      Each operator (usually a young man bearing the PPE of the day - a cloth cap) would send the hook down, enabling the parcel-filled basket to be hauled up, then whisked overhead and above carriage-roof height.

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