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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She looked almost girlish in a tiny white Dutch cap, a green print dress and sandals.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
Her curls peeped out from under the white Dutch cap she wore.
From Blow The Man Down A Romance Of The Coast - 1916 by Holman Day
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 Grace Greenwood
Brabant, in mediæval times was an important prov. of the Low Countries, inhabitants Dutch, cap.
From The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge by P. Austin Nuttall
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