单词 | grenadier cap |
释义 | > as lemmasgrenadier cap grenadier cap n. (also grenadier's cap) ΚΠ 1715 J. Gay What d'ye call It i. 3 Dock. But what shall we do for a Grenadier's Cap? Steward. Fetch the Leathern Bucket that hangs in the Bellfry. 1834 Metropolitan Mag. Feb. 77/1 Transformed from a captain to a counsellor; changing the red coat for the black gown, and the grenadier's cap for the forensic wig. 1911 Encycl. Brit. XXVII. 583/1 The grenadier cap, now a towering bearskin,..was, in the first instance, a limp conical cap (identical with the hussar cap), edged with fur and having a tassel at the end. 2010 P. Doyle & C. Foster Brit. Army Cap Badges ii. 19 When the fashion for grenade-wielding grenadiers arrived from the Continent in 1678, the distinctive mitre-like grenadier cap was created. < as lemmas |
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