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Dunce's cap

noun
1.
A cone-shaped paper hat formerly placed on the head of slow or lazy pupils.  Synonyms: dunce cap, fool's cap.






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"Dunce's cap" Quotes from Famous Books



... chimney that night, which caused great merriment next day. For ladies got smoking caps, and cigar-cases; while gentlemen received workboxes, thimbles, and tatting-needles. Peter got a jester's cap and bells, which he vowed was a dunce's cap intended for Rose, to that young lady's great indignation. Tom had a primer, and a present for a good boy, and May received a plain gold ring at which they all laughed very much, to May's excessive annoyance. After breakfast they all went to church, ...
— Isabel Leicester - A Romance • Clotilda Jennings



Words linked to "Dunce's cap" :   lid, chapeau, hat, dunce cap, fool's cap



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