half cap

noun

A small salute with a cap

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Meanings

nounhalf cap (plural half caps)

plural half caps

  1. archaicA small salute with a cap

    After distasteful looks, and these hard fractions, With certain half-caps and cold-moving nods, They froze me into silence.

    c. 1605–1608 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Tymon of Athens”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]
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Chicago

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