ratting cap

noun

A soft fabric hat with a short visor.

Meanings

nounratting cap (plural ratting caps)

plural ratting caps

  1. A soft fabric hat with a short visor.

    This is another area in which it's hard to tell the dude from the twitcher, as ratting caps and deerstalkers, flying helmets and even toppers are considered acceptably eccentric.

    1980, Bill Oddie, Bill Oddie's Little Black Bird Book, page 61
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