half cap

noun

noun

Archaic A small salute with a cap

After distasteful looks, and these hard fractions, With certain half-caps and cold-moving nods, They froze me into silence.c. 1605–1608 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Tymon of Athens”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:

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