white-cappedadj.
/ˈwʌɪtkapt/, U.S. /ˈ(h)waɪtˌkæpt/ 1. Wearing a white cap or caps.
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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
1751 S. Richardson Lett. & Passages restored from Clarissa 105 We shall see all the doors, the shops, the windows, the sign-irons and balconies..all white-capt, black-hooded, and periwigg'd, or crop-ear'd up by the Immobile Vulgus.
1827 Oriental Herald Aug. 383 The leader..has been joined..by the white-capped Mohammedans.
1899 Scribner's Mag. 25 75 The whitecapped cavalry were caught unawares by French's brigade.
1920 Atlantic Monthly Sept. 325/2 Leaning over me was a white-capped nurse.
2010 J. L. Haley Wolf viii. 149 Surviving photographs depict vast halls of whitecapped old women bent over their toil.
2. Of waves: capped with foam. Also of the sea: covered with white-crested waves.
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white-clawed1743
white-headed1780
white-capped1841
whitehead1870
1841 D. Adams Monitorial Reader vii. 23 The fitful gleaming of the white-capped, distant seas.
1895 Outing 26 447/2 A white-capped sea.
1921 Youth's Compan. 14 Apr. 229/3 The bay was a surging mass of enormous whitecapped waves.
1978 Boating Jan. 62/2 The wind was rising steadily and so were the white-capped waves around us.
2003 Times Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) (Nexis) 31 Mar. c3 The Kalaupapa Peninsula is surrounded on three sides by the white-capped waves of the Pacific Ocean.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2015; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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adj.1751