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单词 black-capped
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black-cappedadj.

Brit. /ˌblakˈkapt/, U.S. /ˌblækˈkæpt/
Forms: see black adj. and capped adj.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: black adj., capped adj.
Etymology: < black adj. + capped adj. Compare earlier black cap n.
1. Wearing a black cap.figurative in earliest use.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > wearing clothing > [adjective] > wearing headgear > wearing a cap > types of
cauled1393
coifed1520
biggined1607
night-capped1607
blue-bonneted1648
black-capped1658
red-capped1663
thrum-capped1708
white-capped1751
fool's-capped1849
calpacked1852
mob-capped1854
pileated1856
bearskinned1857
fezzed1864
tam-o'-shantered1894
cloth-capped1935
1658 T. Flatman Naps upon Parnassus sig. F4 Were they by some Chymist Hat-maker extracted, those reaking fumes..would very handsomely beaver their Blocks, and fit them as neatly, as e're the ancient Black-capt Cloud did the Divine Temple.
1756 J. Hanway Jrnl. Eight Days Journey i. iv. 12 Rowed in pomp, by ten white-shirted, black-capp'd, joyful mariners.
1772 Gen. Evening Post 1 Aug. These plush-coated, black-capped gentry.
1819 W. Scott Bride of Lammermoor v, in Tales of my Landlord 3rd Ser. II. 99 The pinched visage of the peak-bearded, black-capped puritan.
1855 A. B. Warner My Brother's Keeper xx. 212 The firemen,..swarthy, smoky, black-capped and red-shirted figures.
1908 Westm. Gaz. 15 Jan. 3/1 Moors in turbans..and black-capped Jews.
1930 E. Blunden Summer's Fancy 22 And black-capped and gowned The sour-tongued master stared.
2000 J. C. Blake Wildwood Boys (2001) 104 The graybeard, the last to come off the ferry and spitting at the sight of the blackcapped man already well down the road.
2. Chiefly in the names of birds: having the top of the head black. Cf. black cap n. 2.
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the world > animals > birds > parts of or bird defined by > [adjective] > having bird's head > of particular colour
red-headed1556
white-crowned1605
red-capped1648
redhead1738
blue-headed1743
grey-headed1747
black-capped1751
ruby-crowned1758
ruby-headed1811
1751 G. Edwards Nat. Hist. Birds IV. 170 (heading) The first Black-capped Lory.
1783 J. Latham Gen. Synopsis Birds II. ii. 727 Black-Capped Cr[eeper]..head is black.
1839 J. J. Audubon Synopsis Birds N. Amer. 88 Black-capped mocking-bird.—Cat bird... From Texas to Massachusetts.
1870 Amer. Naturalist 3 74 The cries and habits of all these black-capped species.
1907 ‘N. Blanchan’ Birds Every Child should Know ii. 20 These sociable, active, cheerful little black-capped fellows in gray like to hunt for their living in loose scattered flocks.
1942 National Geographic Mag. June 796/2 Our friendly little black-capped chickadee..is almost the exact counterpart of the European coal tit.
2003 Pop. Sci. Dec. 114/2 Whitney and..Fernando Pacheco suspected that a bird called the black-capped antwren was actually three species.

Compounds

black-capped petrel n. a petrel, Pterodroma hasitata (family Procellariidae), native to islands in the Caribbean and now endangered, having a dark brown back and upper wings, white underparts, and a distinctive black cap; = diablotin n. 2a.
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1872 E. Coues Key to N. Amer. Birds 328 Black-capped Petrel.
1939 Auk 56 73 Mr. L. Dalencour..forwarded to me a description of a curious bird found on the Champ de Mars in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, that seems certainly to have been the Black-capped Petrel.
2013 Eureka (Calif.) Times Standard (Nexis) 8 Oct. As part of an expedition led by Environmental Protection in the Caribbean,..Brown and his crew helped locate and describe some of the first Black-capped Petrel colonies ever recorded.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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