watch cap
noun
: a knitted close-fitting usually navy-blue cap worn especially by enlisted men in the U.S. navy in cold or stormy weather
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The change is effected by nothing more than sailor’s watch caps and flashlights (or, in British parlance, torches).
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George Etheredge, New York Times, 12 May 2025
The former model was photographed leaving the White House wearing a black watch cap, an olive green hooded Rag & Bone puffer jacket, black Levi’s jeans and Xappeal black lace-up boots.
—Rosemary Feitelberg, WWD, 24 Jan. 2025
Eventually an older guy boarded — mid-60s, watch cap, maybe Jewish, maybe Irish.
—Curbed, 10 May 2023
As Fury, Jackson — gray-bearded, lumbering (and limping) through the Russian night in a heavy overcoat and watch cap — wears his age like age.
—Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 20 June 2023
Bill Rummel, wearing a black watch cap and sunglasses, drove them into Boston and, at his father’s direction, parked on Huntington Avenue.
—Dan Barry, BostonGlobe.com, 17 June 2023
Futura smiled under his watch cap.
—Tad Friend, The New Yorker, 18 Oct. 2021
According to her family, Hunter Gaye put together the iconic outfit — red watch cap, beaded denim shirt and silver red-laced platform boots— that Gaye donned for his memorable 1974 concert performance at the Oakland Coliseum.
—Mike Barnes, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Dec. 2022
But the watch cap category covers many different styles, all with their best uses.
—The Editors, Field & Stream, 20 Nov. 2019
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George Etheredge, New York Times, 12 May 2025
The former model was photographed leaving the White House wearing a black watch cap, an olive green hooded Rag & Bone puffer jacket, black Levi’s jeans and Xappeal black lace-up boots.
—Rosemary Feitelberg, WWD, 24 Jan. 2025
Eventually an older guy boarded — mid-60s, watch cap, maybe Jewish, maybe Irish.
—Curbed, 10 May 2023
As Fury, Jackson — gray-bearded, lumbering (and limping) through the Russian night in a heavy overcoat and watch cap — wears his age like age.
—Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 20 June 2023
Bill Rummel, wearing a black watch cap and sunglasses, drove them into Boston and, at his father’s direction, parked on Huntington Avenue.
—Dan Barry, BostonGlobe.com, 17 June 2023
Futura smiled under his watch cap.
—Tad Friend, The New Yorker, 18 Oct. 2021
According to her family, Hunter Gaye put together the iconic outfit — red watch cap, beaded denim shirt and silver red-laced platform boots— that Gaye donned for his memorable 1974 concert performance at the Oakland Coliseum.
—Mike Barnes, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Dec. 2022
But the watch cap category covers many different styles, all with their best uses.
—The Editors, Field & Stream, 20 Nov. 2019
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“Watch cap.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/watch%20cap. Accessed 12 Jul. 2025.
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