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fool's cap

NOUN
jester's cap


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He puts on his fool’s cap and plays and dances and hopes he amuses.”

From New York Times ● Mar. 24, 2023

"Troel" is quite the fantastical creature with his carrot-shaped nose, crooked fool's cap, wispy beard and blearily closed eyes.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 27, 2012

Over the burgher's shoulder, Jordaens has painted himself, sporting a fool's cap.

From Time Magazine Archive

My fool’s cap was a vcasque, and my vbauble a truncheon.

From The Literary World Seventh Reader by John Calvin Metcalf

Yet know thou withal thou art not yet out of the wood, but with risk of thy reason hast slipped into this fool's cap.

From The Adventurous Simplicissimus being the description of the Life of a Strange vagabond named Melchior Sternfels von Fuchshaim by Hans Jacob Christoph von Grimmelshausen


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