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black cap

British  

noun

  1. another name for white-fronted tern

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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“He was last seen wearing a black cap, black sweatshirt, black pants, multi-colored sneakers, and carrying a black bookbag.”

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 17, 2025

Diane, wearing a red and black cap and a tie-dyed sweater, speaks: “This site was reported May 1, 2024, for unidentified persons.”

From Salon • Oct. 4, 2024

“Pitching at home, we have a lot of great fans and I don’t want to disappoint them,” Senga said, wearing a black cap with a ghost fork logo.

From Washington Times • May 31, 2023

It is evidence of a sporting sliding-doors moment, a parallel universe where Stokes wears a black cap and becomes a Kiwi icon.

From BBC • Feb. 22, 2023

And in imagination she saw the judge's old hands put the black cap on his head and begin to pronounce sentence….

From "And Then There Were None" by Agatha Christie

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