Gandhi cap
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of Gandhi cap
First recorded in 1920–25
Example Sentences
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One of his earliest surviving photographs shows the beaming businessman wearing the trademark white Gandhi cap and showing the leader the branding on his microphone: Chicago Radio.
From BBC • Aug. 14, 2022
All done up in Gandhi cap and grey cotton waistcoat, his legs wrapped spider-like in white churidhars, India's Jawaharlal Nehru expounded his foreign policy last week before the Upper House of Parliament.
From Time Magazine Archive
At that a fellow legislator noted throbbingly that the spooning spoon-snatcher was wearing a Gandhi cap, the headdress identified with the dominant Congress Party.
From Time Magazine Archive
There, soon after his arrival, an Indian correspondent wearing a Gandhi cap was mistaken for Nehru and overwhelmed by a flower-brandishing mob who almost trampled him to death trying to kiss him.
From Time Magazine Archive
Or an excited crowd, all wearing the little white Gandhi cap, rend the air with shouts of Mahatma Gandhi-ki jai! in honour of some travelling apostle of "Non-co-operation."
From India, Old and New by Chirol, Valentine, Sir
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