shapkan.
/ˈʃapka/ A brimless Russian hat of fur or sheepskin. (See also quot. 1945.)
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1945 Richmond (Va.) News-leader 2 Aug. 14/3 Newest thing in casual headgear is called a ‘shapka’ (meaning a small informal hat in Hungarian)... This headpiece is a cross between a ‘babushka’ and a snood, and can be worn over any kind of coiffure.
1958 Philadelphia Sunday Bull. 30 Mar. v. 1/3 Wearing one of those ‘shapka’, or tall Russian hats, the wisecracking Hope descended on a Moscow shivering in six-degree-below-zero temperature.
1963 V. Nabokov Gift iv. 271 He never removed either his fur-lined dressing gown or his lambskin shapka.
1977 Time 14 Feb. 33/2 Every [Russian] man wears a shapka, a fur..hat with ear flaps.
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