dunce's cap
- a variation of dunce cap.
Example Sentences
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End-of-term report As headmaster I'm embarrassed to admit that we saw little of this youngster last year, mainly because he spent most lessons facing the corner with a dunce's cap on his head.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 21, 2011
But 2011 could see the company shed its dunce's cap.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 4, 2011
In 1967 he was paraded through the streets of Canton in a dunce's cap and denounced as "a stinking remnant of the landlord class."
From Time Magazine Archive
This present was a dunce’s cap, rather like a pharaoh’s serpent, which you lit at the top end.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
"Thou idiot!" exclaimed Beeckman; "'tis a dunce's cap!"
From Tales of the Chesapeake by Townsend, George Alfred
