Type of cap

Usage examples of dunce.

Imbri agreed in a dreamlet, making a picture of the nix formed as a human being with the head of a fish, wearing a huge dunce cap, while an ice storm swirled about him.

For Dulness and for the dunces forward movement is inescapably circular, but the poem itself is linear.

In Book 1 Dulness and Cibber both contemplate the works of the dunces, who conclude the book by hailing Cibber as their king.

Cibber appropriately sleeps in the lap of Dulness, as she sits on her throne before the thronging dunces and acknowledges the contributions made to her power by education, collecting, science, politics, and religion.

The confusion of the duncical city derives from this essential blindness: the dunces know full well what they do but they do not know the significance of what they do.

Born, as we have said, in a boarding-house, left entirely in charge of the nurse-maid, educated at a fashionable day-school, brought into society before fifteen, living in the whirl, the bustle, the luxury, and the unhomeliness of a hotel, what could you expect of Miss Flora but that she should be, at seventeen years of age, a butterfly in her habits, a clever dunce as regards solid knowledge, and a premature woman of the world in her tastes and manners?

Pushkin, one of the best educated Europeans of his day, was called an ignoramus by Count Thingamabob and a dunce by General Donner-wetter.

Genius appears in the World, you may know him by this infallible Sign, that all the Dunces are in Conspiracy against him.

His name was Kong Deshi, and he was a minor diplomat on the official list, age forty-six, a man of modest di­mensions, and, the form card at the Foreign Ministry said, modest in­tellectual gifts—that was a polite way of saying he was considered a dunce.

His name was Kong Deshi, and he was a minor diplomat on the official list, age forty-six, a man of modest dimensions, and, the form card at the Foreign Ministry said, modest intellectual gifts -- that was a polite way of saying he was considered a dunce.

The bottoms raced by us in black bands and twists of oak fingers and pines shaped like dunce hats.

Cursing the man for an over-brave dunce, Vangerdahast touched the throat clasp of his weather-cloak.

Seeing him at his desk next to the bald and schoolmasterly Blackwood was, like seeing the classroom dunce placed next to the teacher so an eye could be kept on his work.

I didn't want to sound like a dunce or a withholder of crucial information, but I had to tell him, for my sake as well as his own, when I realized what her statements implied.

I didn’t want to sound like a dunce or a withholder of crucial information, but I had to tell him, for my sake as well as his own, when I realized what her statements implied.