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  havelock

  noun

  a cap cover with a flap hanging over the back of the neck, for protection from the sun.
• Havelock
  Havelock

  noun

  a town in SE North Carolina.

havelock

¹ American  

[hav-lok] / ˈhæv lɒk /

noun

1. a cap cover with a flap hanging over the back of the neck, for protection from the sun.

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Havelock ² American  

[hav-lok, -luhk] / ˈhæv lɒk, -lək /

noun

1. a town in SE North Carolina.

2. a male given name.

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havelock British  

/ ˈhævlɒk /

noun

1. a light-coloured cover for a service cap with a flap extending over the back of the neck to protect the head and neck from the sun

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Etymology

Origin of havelock

1860–65, named after Sir Henry Havelock (1795–1857), English general in India

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Being a little disappointed that she didn’t think I would also know—I didn’t—I asked her what a havelock was.

From "Silent To The Bone" by E.L. Konigsburg

He is a fine-looking man, with black eyes and hair, set off by a white havelock.

From Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe Compiled From Her Letters and Journals by Her Son Charles Edward Stowe by Harriet Beecher Stowe

The knob of his stick and his legs shook together with passion, whilst the trunk, draped in the wings of the havelock, preserved his historic attitude of defiance. 

From The Secret Agent a Simple Tale by Joseph Conrad

Christmas eve, about six or seven, he would suddenly enter, snow covering his havelock, and draw her into his embrace with that demonstrative ardour peculiar to him.

From The Song of Songs by Hermann Sudermann

Thinking, as he stood with Paul Blecker, leaning over the gate, of how she had brought him a badly-made havelock that morning.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 67, May, 1863 by Various

Meanwhile a tree fell on to a completed new-build house at the Homes by Esh development at Havelock Park in Darlington.

From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2026

Havelock re-encounters Jordan years after the attack and finds himself caught in the firehose spray of a diatribe.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026

The three other plinths that surround Nelson’s Column feature George IV and two 19th Century military figures instrumental in Britain’s control of India, Charles James Napier and Henry Havelock.

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2024

Inspired by the story of John Addington Symonds and Havelock Ellis, two British scholars of homosexuality in a deeply homophobic Victorian era, Crewe’s debut is by turns lusty, elegant and deeply informed by history.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 5, 2023

She told me that it was a cap that has a flap of cloth attached to cover the neck, named after Sir Henry Havelock, the man who invented it.

From "Silent To The Bone" by E.L. Konigsburg

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