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unˈcapped, ppl. a. (un-1 8.)
1548–63Becon New Catech. (1564) I. 330 b, A sorte of Popettes standing in euerye corner of the Church, some holdinge in theyr handes a Swoorde,..some capped, some vncapped. 1670G. H. Hist. Cardinals ii. iii. 186 The Nuntio [was] uncapt for some time, and not one word to be heard of his promotion. 1850L. Hunt Autobiog. xx. (1860) 347 The large wrinkled features of the old women, with their uncapped gray hair, strike you at first as singularly plain. 1902Fairbairn in Expositor Sept. 171 The great mountains raised..their uncapped heads crowned with perennial snow. 1955Times 3 Aug. 4/6 (caption) The only uncapped player in the British Isles team to meet South Africa at Johannesburg on Saturday. 1977World of Cricket Monthly June 92/2 The form of uncapped 24-year-old seamer Bill Bourne pierced the gloom like a ray of sunshine. |