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Gandhi cap

American  

noun

  1. a white cap, pointed in front and back and having a wide band, worn by men in India.


Gandhi cap British  

noun

  1. a cap made of white hand-woven cloth worn by some men in India

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of Gandhi cap

First recorded in 1920–25

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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

Most of the older Congressmen* ritualistically wear the diaperlike dhoti and white Gandhi cap to identify themselves with the dead hero.

From Time Magazine Archive

In Delhi or touring his India, Nehru sticks to salwars, a homespun shirt and a white Gandhi cap for his high bald crown.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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 Sir Valentine Chirol

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