Meanings
plural dunsel caps
- nauticalA knitted cap.
"Her long white hair was stuffed haphazardly into a dunsel cap..."
2011, Joani Lacy, Hollister House: The Banyan Tree Awakens, page 833 more examples
"[The suspect was] described as black, 17-20 years old and wearing a dunsel cap and black plaid jacket..."
1975 December 18, The Cincinnati Enquirer"McLaughlin said the suspect was wearing a yellow tank top shirt and possibly glasses and a dunsel cap, which is similar to a ski cap with a tassel."
1978 July 16, The Kokomo TribuneIn the school yard he saw his grammar-school self in dunsel cap and leather boots...
2013, Thomas Berger, Reinhart in Love: A Novel (Open Road Media), pages not numbered
Synonyms & antonyms
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dunsel cap. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dunsel%20cap
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