Dutch cap
Britishnoun
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a woman's lace cap with triangular flaps, characteristic of Dutch national dress
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a contraceptive device for women See diaphragm
Example Sentences
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There was a Dutch cap made of a kitchen towel, trimmed with four napkin rings, a cookie cutter and a tea strainer.
From Time Magazine Archive
She looked almost girlish in a tiny white Dutch cap, a green print dress and sandals.
From Time Magazine Archive
But, of course, it was all a mistake; there was no such period of childish courtship, and the boy in the queer Dutch cap was an optical illusion, or a "double," in German a doppel-gänger.
From Queen Victoria, her girlhood and womanhood by Greenwood, Grace
The bust has a Dutch cap and garments.
From Christopher Columbus and His Monument Columbia being a concordance of choice tributes to the great Genoese, his grand discovery, and his greatness of mind and purpose by Dickey, J. M. (John Marcus)
Another wore a dress of gray and a Dutch cap of silver lace, and had her little girl in quaint cap and long dress, to match her own, as maid of honor.
From Etiquette by Post, Emily
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