redcap
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A Pacific University graduate who once worked as a redcap despite a journalism degree, he was taken on as a copy boy in 1952.
From Time Magazine Archive
Cliff Campbell was a young Negro from Washington, D.C., a onetime Pullman porter and redcap, whom the depression had sidetracked from architecture into schoolteaching.
From Time Magazine Archive
Others: a hobo is a redcap, sinkers are dumplings, a K.O. is a commanding officer.
From Time Magazine Archive
Mrs. Rudkin had her husband tote them on the train daily into Grand Central, where he paid a redcap to deliver them to Charles & Co.
From Time Magazine Archive
Even I, who have grown up in the house of a redcap, fear goblins.
From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black
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