Meanings
nounmist cap (plural mist caps)
plural mist caps
- artsA cap that provides invisibility to the one who wears it.
Hardly was one half of his peas threshed when he heard a piteous wailing, and on going to look for the cause, he found on the ground under the peas one of the dwarfs whose skull he had rapped with his flail, and who was now visible, having lost his mist-cap with the blow.
1850, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, London: H.G. Bohn
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