toboggan cap

toboggan cap
noun
a close-fitting woolen cap; often has a tapering tail with a tassel
Syn: ↑ski cap, ↑stocking cap
Hypernyms: ↑cap

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noun
see toboggan I, 4

Useful english dictionary. 2012.

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