shingle cap

English

Noun

shingle cap (plural shingle caps)

  1. A woman's tight-fitting cloth hat popular in the early twentieth century.
    • 1934, Agatha Christie, chapter 11, in Murder on the Orient Express, London: HarperCollins, published 2017, page 154:
      'She had on a shingle cap and I only saw the back of her head.'
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