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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

Example Sentences

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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

Instead, Nehru, looking overstrained, his white hair curling from under his Gandhi cap, proposed an even bolder plan: merge existing states into vastly more populous units which would cut across linguistic lines.

From Time Magazine Archive

At that a fellow legislator noted throbbingly that the spooning spoon-snatcher was wearing a Gandhi cap, the headdress identified with the dominant Congress Party.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Prime Minister of India has been doing a lot of talking lately through that Gandhi cap he wears.

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 Chirol, Valentine, Sir

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