capstring
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
capstring (plural capstrings)
- (usually in the plural) A string that fastens a cap on the wearer's head.
- 1840, Theodore Edward Hook, Cousin Geoffrey, the Old Bachelor, page 129:
- By this well-managed ruse he came into possession of a scarlet breast-knot from Mrs. Dashwood; a black crape capstring from Mrs. Faithful; a smelling bottle from Juliet; and a pencil-case from Blanche […]
- 1867, Benjamin Brierley, Marlocks of Merriton, page 101:
- He had scarcely finished the sentence when the door opened, and in rushed Toppin's wife, making such havoc of her capstrings, which she pulled and twisted in her excitement, that one might have been induced to suppose they were anything but minor objects of her wrath.