stocking cap

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Recent Examples of stocking cap Both of them wore their stocking caps pulled down beneath the hoods of their anoraks. Ann Patchett, New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2025 When Mitchell broke into the house, she was dressed in all black, with a black stocking cap, and carried items such as a covered flashlight and a prybar. Ingrid Harbo, Twin Cities, 24 Sep. 2025 Donning stocking caps and bundled up in winter coats against an April chill, hundreds of protesters held picket signs along the sidewalks of Emmanuel Cleaver II Boulevard and Main Street. Kendrick Calfee, Kansas City Star, 5 Apr. 2025 Friends sent me stocking caps, soft blankets, fingerless gloves and slip-on shoes. Amy Bizzarri, Chicago Tribune, 5 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for stocking cap
Recent Examples of Synonyms for stocking cap
Noun
  • Meanwhile, Prince Harry looked similarly streamlined in a button-up shirt, baseball cap, grey cigarette jeans, and suede green sneakers.
    Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 16 Feb. 2026
  • Wayne Antusas sits behind a wooden desk in a classroom in the A3 unit at Westville Correctional Facility, wearing a black T-shirt and a black baseball cap emblazoned with the Builder of Men Ministries logo.
    Amy Lavalley, Chicago Tribune, 15 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • Soriano designed his all-black outfit featuring a dramatic black top hat.
    Ashley J. DiMella, FOXNews.com, 30 Jan. 2026
  • Momoa wore brown pants and an olive vest, finishing the look with a top hat and sunglasses.
    Ashley Vega, PEOPLE, 16 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Clockwise from top: A 1957 Balenciaga hat, Deirdre Hawken’s Cauliflower Headpiece from 2013, a layered silk hat from the 1940s, and a 1942 Germaine Vittu hat.
    Nathan Heller, Vogue, 17 Apr. 2024
  • Yet, Halston does clock something of use from the experience: a young woman in the audience who, among the sweater sets, is wearing a colorful silk hat.
    Whitney Friedlander, Vulture, 14 May 2021
Noun
  • Artist and designer Cecil Beaton performed a coy fashion magazine pose in full drag, his slender form crowned by an enormous picture hat that transforms him into something approaching a human flower, photographed by the duo David James Scott and Edgar Wilkinson.
    Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 24 June 2025
  • Okay, Emily is wearing a picture hat that makes her previous hat look tiny.
    Emma Specter, Vogue, 2 May 2025
Noun
  • Mandatory class attire includes gray pants, a black pelt, gray button-up shirt and a garrison cap.
    Christopher Kamrani, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025
  • On the wall beside the door is a photo of Lambert in uniform, his Army garrison cap cocked at a rakish angle, a thin mustache on his upper lip.
    Washington Post, Washington Post, 12 June 2019
Noun
  • Gray was wearing a bright blue cowboy hat, and quickly pivoted to acknowledge some of the ongoing concerns around crypto.
    Trevor Bach, Dallas Morning News, 19 Feb. 2026
  • Bianco, who is often seen sporting a cowboy hat, grew up in a small mining town in Utah, moving to Southern California in 1989.
    Kaitlyn Schallhorn, Oc Register, 7 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • This regulatory void raises concerns about exclusions for pre-existing conditions, potential service caps, and the absence of comprehensive coverage for preventive care.
    Richard Menger MD MPA, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2025
  • And blowing a whistle, a proletarian prophet in a red service cap.
    Ostap Kin, The New York Review of Books, 23 Mar. 2022
Noun
  • One of the most popular traditional costumes was the bauta, which consisted of a full mask, a cape that covered the head and shoulders, and a tricorn or cocked hat.
    Elizabeth Djinis, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Feb. 2024
  • Heather Wilson, a nurse anesthetist, wore huge fake eyelashes and an absurd cocked hat.
    William Finnegan, The New Yorker, 15 May 2021

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“Stocking cap.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stocking%20cap. Accessed 25 Feb. 2026.

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