Read full poem →Four Knaves in garbs succinct, a trusty band,
Caps on their heads, and halberts in their hand;
And particolour'd troops, a shining train,
Dictionary Entry
A close-fitting hat, either brimless or peaked.
In a Sentence
“The children were all wearing caps to protect them from the sun.”
Origin
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Common Phrases
. capscaps icecaps whitecaps smallcaps redcaps bottlecaps baseball
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Poetry examples for “caps”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Over whom is the cry of this furor of exultation?
While they are skipping and screaming, and dancing their caps on the
points of
Read full poem →At last the station’s reached, the engine stops;
For bags and wraps the red-caps circle round;
From off the step the passenger lightly hops,
Read full poem →Because we've learn'd to doff
Our caps, where we were used to keep them on.'
'If times get worse,
Read full poem →With all that noise of ruin round his ears!
Yonder the people cast their caps o'erhead,
And swear the threaten'd doom is ne'er to dread
Read full poem →Go out to see blue water, yellow sand,
And watch the white caps pat the sky, and hear
The intermittent whispers of the waves.
Read full poem →where lay the dynastic house of the Go.
The bright cloths and bright caps of Shin
Are now the base of old hills.
Read full poem →DENIS, whose motionable, alert, most vaulting wit
Caps occasion with an intellectual fit.
Yet Arthur is a Bowman: his three-heeled timber'll hit
Read full poem →When nestling buds unfold their wings,
And bishop’s-caps have golden rings,
Musing upon many things,
Read full poem →Of warlocks blue,
With their caps of darkness hooded!