flat cap

British  

noun

1. another name for cloth cap

2. an Elizabethan man's hat with a narrow down-turned brim

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Example Sentences

"I wish it had happened ten years ago. But still anyone from any side who will stop this bloodshed, I salute them," he said, tipping the top of his flat cap.

From BBC • May 12, 2025

But only four others — Nevada, North Carolina, Oregon and Utah — use a flat cap like Washington.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 9, 2023

He wore a flat cap, a softball-style long-sleeved shirt emblazoned with the Aztec calendar on his chest and a tattoo on his right forearm that read, “Let’s Get Free.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 2, 2022

It was a distinctly lo-fi production: Her father’s costume for the role of Papageno was “a flat cap and some pan pipes on a string around his neck,” Miskimmon said.

From New York Times • Apr. 8, 2022

Finally, a swarthy man with thick black hair and a flat cap on his head stopped, got out of his taxi, and helped us load our stuff.

From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago