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n. a cap worn by sailors
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A sailor cap is a round, flat visorless hat worn by sailors in many of the world's navies. A tally, an inscribed black silk ribbon, is tied around the base which usually bears the name of a ship or a navy. Many navies (e.g. the German) tie the tally at the rear of the cap and let the two ends hang down to the shoulders as decorative streamers. In the Royal Navy the tally is tied off in a bow over the left ear and in the early 20th century it was customary when going on shore leave to tie a small coin in the bow to make it stand out. In wartime, as a security measure, many navies replace the name of the ship with a generic title (e.g. "HMS" = "His/Her Majesty's Ship" in the Royal Navy or "South African Navy"). The cap may be further embellished with a badge, cockade or other accessory. Visorless caps of this kind began to be worn in the mid 19th century.
The more rigid type of sailor hat with a wide, flat peak is also known as square rig (this refers generally to a type of sailor uniform) cap or pork pie (not to be confused with the brimmed pork pie hat).
The sailor cap was first introduced in 1811 as a part of the uniform in the Russian Navy (bezkozyrka, ru. бескозырка, non-peaked hat) . It was a development of the peaked cap in application to marine conditions.
United States Navy, Bolivian and Venezuelan sailors wear a unique white canvas hat with an upright brim, often referred to as a "Dixie cup" in reference to its similarity to the shape of a common disposable drinking cup, or a "gob hat" or cap. This hat was also worn by Polish Navy sailors before 1939—it was called "amerykanka" (not exactly pol. "American hat") or "nejwihetka" (derived from the English phrase "Navy hat").
Usage examples of "sailor cap".
The album cover, which showed a rumpled troubadour sitting on a curb in New York City, went oddly with the covers of Nate's other records - Dean Martin looking tipsy in a tux, Mitch Miller with his sing-along smile, Diane Renee in her middy blouse and perky sailor cap.
Dean Martin looking tipsy in a tux, Mitch Miller with his sing-along smile, Diane Renee in her middy blouse and perky sailor cap.
Why did Oskar put his sailor cap with the flowing ribbons back on again and plod off?
If he comes out this morning with his sailor cap on, that captain's cap, that means we're going out on the yacht.
A man on the move with the white, upside down sailor cap and a policeman's badge pinned to the center.
A young pelican was preening itself on a nearby dock piling, and Chemo found this infinitely more fascinating than watching Chloe Simpkins Stranahan in a Shirley Temple sailor cap, sucking down vodkas.
My eye snagged on the second baseman, or -woman-a petite dark girl, a stranger I was sure I'd never seen before, in fact like no one I'd ever encountered in the Chautauqua Valley, with olive-pale skin and perfect features and a Greek sailor cap tilted seductively over her forehead, though she was dressed like any teenager in T-shirt, jeans, sneakers without socks.
It was by no means a bad school, but it was not a school to which children were escorted by nursemaids, or where boys were dressed in white sailor suits and crowned with a sailor cap with H.
He wore a white sailor cap, its turned-up brim nearly covered with what looked like colored advertising-and campaign-buttons.
Pike and I had taken the girls shopping one day and bought this adorable white sailor outfit and sailor cap for Claire to sing her Popeye song in.
A Greek sailor cap was tipped back on his head with a Judas Priest button pinned above the visor.
Just in front of the handle was lashed the staffs main mojo -- a rubber squeeze-toy head of Donald Duck, his angry open bill forward and his rubber sailor cap within thumb's reach.
She had a little sailor cap pinned to her head and an air about her that suggested she'd known starboard from port since the day she reached puberty.
One of the men, who was elderly and wore a battered Greek sailor cap, stepped forward and mumbled something to him.
Aunt Josephine and the orphans saw the wooden peg leg, and the navy-blue sailor cap, and the eye patch, and they knew who was coming to their aid.