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also képi
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Recent Examples of kepi
De Gaulle returned to Paris, walked the Champs-Élysées in his stiff kepi.
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Alexander Sammon, Harper's Magazine, 25 June 2022
De Gaulle returned to Paris, walked the Champs-Élysées in his stiff kepi.
—Rachel Kushner, Harper’s Magazine , 25 May 2022
Top fashion points go to the German racewalkers, who appeared to be paying homage to the famous white kepi of the French Foreign Legion.
—Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 10 Mar. 2021
Gendarmes walk the streets wearing kepi hats; the supermarkets sell vacherin and fond de veau.
—Kate Holstein, Condé Nast Traveler, 10 Apr. 2020
Alexander Sammon, Harper's Magazine, 25 June 2022
De Gaulle returned to Paris, walked the Champs-Élysées in his stiff kepi.
—Rachel Kushner, Harper’s Magazine , 25 May 2022
Top fashion points go to the German racewalkers, who appeared to be paying homage to the famous white kepi of the French Foreign Legion.
—Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 10 Mar. 2021
Gendarmes walk the streets wearing kepi hats; the supermarkets sell vacherin and fond de veau.
—Kate Holstein, Condé Nast Traveler, 10 Apr. 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for kepi
Noun
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The exhibit featured photos of Oloyede commanding Florida A&M’s band, along with her uniform jacket and a tall major shako (military-style) hat.—
AJ Willingham,
AJC.com,
4 Apr. 2026
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Sutton Foster crochets Hugh Jackman a marching-band shako for the occasion.—
Bethy Squires,
Vulture,
7 Jan. 2025
Noun
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Former James Bond actor Sean Connery was dancing, legendary Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson was wearing a Viking helmet and one of the country’s great strikers, Ally McCoist, sang Bruce Springsteen numbers on karaoke.—
Jordan Campbell,
New York Times,
3 June 2026
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Tight ends Jake Briningstool and John Michael Gyllenborg and defensive tackle Omarr Norman-Lott were watching without helmets.—
Pete Sweeney
June 3,
Kansas City Star,
3 June 2026
Noun
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Charlie Chaplin, an Englishman, did in fact wear a beret as an actor spoofing a pretentious director in his 1916 short Behind the Screen.—
Guy Martin,
Forbes.com,
26 May 2026
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Then came John Travolta and his charming little berets.—
José Criales-Unzueta,
Vanity Fair,
23 May 2026
Noun
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The dining room table, where the sisters wrote, is strewn with manuscripts, quill pens and tea cups; a bonnet and shawl bedeck a chair in the small kitchen.—
Culture Critic,
Los Angeles Times,
14 May 2026
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This is a motorcar with a very long bonnet, very long tail and a very short cabin.—
Morgan Korn,
ABC News,
8 May 2026
Noun
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Soldiers from the Old Guard, wearing tricorne hats and bright-red uniforms, marched past, amid a flourish of fifes and drums.—
Seth Harp,
Harpers Magazine,
19 Sep. 2025
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Take out yer triangular hat (a tricorn), eye patch, brass earrings, shoulder parrot, sword and scabbard, hook for a hand, and peg for a leg.—
Richard Lederer,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
13 Sep. 2025
Noun
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If Billy, who wears a turban and caftan in a few scenes, calls to mind Norma Desmond of Sunset Boulevard, Schoenbrun directly assures you that that is not an accident.—
Richard Lawson,
HollywoodReporter,
13 May 2026
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Her matching turban completed the unexpected look.—
Jessica Booth,
PEOPLE,
9 May 2026
Noun
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Ferrier fell onto the hood of the car and multiple eyewitnesses reported that Allen tried to accelerate and break in an attempt to get him off.—
WCCO Staff,
CBS News,
1 June 2026
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Under the hood, the agent is pulling text from merchant product descriptions, marketing pages and review snippets that were written to rank on Google, not to survive scrutiny from an AI making a purchase recommendation.—
Michael Quoc,
Forbes.com,
1 June 2026
Noun
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Mitchell was the most quietly elegant of men, dressed in a costume—a homburg, a knitted vest, a tweed jacket—that seemed unchanged since the thirties, and speaking in a soft but confident North Carolina accent.—
Adam Gopnik,
New Yorker,
17 Aug. 2025
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Optimo stocks a variety of styles, including homburgs, porkpies, straw Panamas, and fedoras, the last of which is seen here.—
Abby Montanez,
Robb Report,
3 Mar. 2024
Cite this Entry
“Kepi.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/kepi. Accessed 7 Jun. 2026.
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