boinan.
/ˈbɔɪnə/ A flat cap worn in northern Spain.
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1904 W. M. Gallichan Fishing & Trav. Spain 19 In his blue boina, a cap resembling the tam-o'-shanter, he looked like a ‘braw Scot’.
1922 Chambers's Jrnl. 15 July 519/2 He wore a hat of soft black felt or else a Boina (the Biscayan bonnet).
1937 Times 16 Nov. 17/6 All over Spain the traditionalists donned their red boinas and rose in the name of Don Carlos to battle with innovation.
1957 R. Campbell Coll. Poems II. 153 The scarlet boinas trickled to the plain.
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