chapka
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A type of hat worn by 19th-century Polish cavalry (and later some Napoleonic troops), consisting of a high, four-pointed cap with regimental insignia on the front, and now associated with Polish independence and nationalism.
noun
Alternative form of shapka.
Example Sentences
- "He rejoined the Twenty-Second Lancers at Cape Town—all the squadrons together again for the first time in two years—and sailed for home. The new King himself reviewed them after their arrival, having granted them time enough to discard their khaki and put on again the glories of blue and gold, schapska and plume, lance pennons and embroidered saddle cloths."
- "She laughed at our surprise, pulled off her fur chapka cap, and shook loose long blonde hair."
- "On July 18, 1921, shortly before midnight, the Tatar leader was returning to the Pera Palace Hotel, accompanied by his brother and four other people, all wearing the traditional Russian chapka, after a last drink at a kiosk in the nearby public garden."
- "Wool-and-faux-fur chapka by Rei Kawakubo, $775 at Barneys and Comme des Garçons Boutique (116 Wooster Street)."
- "So I took off my fur hat, a classic Russian chapka made of beaver that I had bought in Moscow, and gave it to him as my “Siberian gift.”"
- "Clad in a cassinette nightshirt out at the elbows, a rabbit’s fur chapka tugged down past his ears, and a pair of weevil-gnawed moccasins worn through at the toes, he appears much the bedraggled half-wit, but lolled tailorwise atop his swaybacked paint in the middle of Main Street polishing off the last of his gingersnaps, the dust-talced, squint-eyed old veteran is listening fully mindful."