caubeen

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English

A British army caubeen with a cap badge and green hackle
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Etymology

From Irish cáibín, from cába (“cape”),[1] from cappa (“cape”)[2]

Noun

caubeen (plural caubeens)

  1. (fashion) An Irish beret, formerly worn by peasants, later also adopted for army use.
    • 1850, Le Fanu, Billy Maloney's Taste of Love and Glory:
      […] a bare-legged Celtic brother of the gentle craft, somewhat at the wrong side of forty, with a turf-coloured caubeen, patched frieze, a clear brown complexion, dark-grey eyes, and a right pleasant dash of roguery in his features […]

References

  1. ^ “caubeen”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cába”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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