red-capped

adjective

Having a red cap.

Meanings

adjectivered-capped (not comparable)
  1. not comparableHaving a red cap.

    While they watered and washed their horses, I talked with a red-capped man, some kind of chief.

    2008, Oisin Curran, Mopus, page 34
    2 more examples

    What they saw made even Wally lose his faith in human honesty, for there were Beth and Eddie, running along the bank upstream, their eyes on the water, their fingers pointing toward the river, where not one, not two, but three of the boys' red-capped bottles were bobbing along on the current.

    2009, Phyllis Reynolds Naylor, The Girls Take Over

    Everywhere they have the right to go! to ferret and to spy, to listen, to search, to interrogate--the red-capped Company is paid for what it can find.

    2014, Emmauska Orczy, Lord Tony's Wife

Origin

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APA

red-capped. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/red-capped

MLA

“red-capped.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/red-capped. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “red-capped,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/red-capped.

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