caubeen

plural caubeens

1. fashionAn Irish beret, formerly worn by peasants, later also adopted for army use.

   Stephen looked down on a wide headless caubeen, hung on his ashplanthandle over his knee.

   1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[Episode 9: Scylla and Charybdis]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC, part II [Odyssey], page 184

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   [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