caubeen
English edit
Etymology edit
From Irish cáibín, from cába (“cape”),[1] from cappa (“cape”)[2]
Noun edit
caubeen (plural caubeens)
- (fashion) An Irish beret, formerly worn by peasants, later also adopted for army use.
- 1850, Le Fanu, Billy Maloney's Taste of Love and Glory:
- […] a bare-legged Celtic brother of the gentle craft, somewhat at the wrong side of forty, with a turf-coloured caubeen, patched frieze, a clear brown complexion, dark-grey eyes, and a right pleasant dash of roguery in his features […]
References edit
- ^ “caubeen”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- ^ G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “cába”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language