shapka
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of shapka
< Russian shápka hat, cap, Old Russian: headgear for men, cognate with Serbo-Croatian šȁpka, probably < Middle Low German schapël (with Slavic suffix -ka ) < Old French chapel ( see chapeau); compare Czech čapka, Slovak čapica, Polish czapka, with č perhaps directly < Old French
Example Sentences
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A stern customs officer took off my furry shapka and poked at the still warm lining, looking for diamonds my parents might have hidden there.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 13, 2017
The shapka became fashionable in a small way back in 1959, when Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan visited Moscow.
From Time Magazine Archive
Its central axiom is that if one burrows deep enough beneath the Mao jacket, the shapka or the chador, one discovers that people everywhere are essentially the same.
From Time Magazine Archive
Moviegoers also liked the way the shapka looked on the stone-bald head of swashbuckling Actor Yul Brynner in The Brothers Karamazov.
From Time Magazine Archive
At Anya’s house, Demyan pulled off his shapka and clutched it in his hand.
From Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack
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