skullcap

Noun

Meaning

A cap which fits the head closely; also, formerly, a headpiece of iron sewed inside of a cap for protection.

Any plant of the labiate genus Scutellaria, the calyx of whose flower appears, when inverted, like a helmet with the visor raised.

The Lophiomys.

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I come to eat with very important people in the world, and I say ‘only kosher', and always with a skullcap. I don't recall that my business ever suffered from that. Lev Leviev

Tomás de Torquemada: It's better to lose your skullcap than your skull. Mel Brooks

The hijab, or sikh turban, or Jewish skullcap are all explicit symbols, but they do not represent a threat or affront to others, and have no bearing on the competence, skills and intelligence of a person. Randa Abdel-Fattah

And so Mbatha-Raw is badly underused, her flashback character reduced to a madcap 1920s-muse stereotype: a dazzling smile in a sparkly skullcap and drop-waisted dress, lit in amber nostalgia so glowy you could warm your hands by it. Source: Internet

Members of the Royal Guard Regiment often wore the flowing white thaub (robe) and white kaffiyah and qutrah (traditional Arab headgear of skullcap and scarf). Source: Internet

'He is represented seated with a papyrus scroll across his knees, wearing a skullcap and a long linen kilt. Source: Internet

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