caubeen
English
Etymology
From Irish cáibín, from cába (“cape”)[1], from cappa (“cape”)[2]
Noun
caubeen (plural caubeens)
- (fashion) An Irish beret, formerly worn by peasants, later also adopted for army use.
- 1850, Le Fanu, Billy Maloney's Taste of Love and Glory
- […] a bare-legged Celtic brother of the gentle craft, somewhat at the wrong side of forty, with a turf-coloured caubeen, patched frieze, a clear brown complexion, dark-grey eyes, and a right pleasant dash of roguery in his features […]
- 1850, Le Fanu, Billy Maloney's Taste of Love and Glory
References
- ^ “caubeen”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cába”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language