redcapped

redcapped (comparative more redcapped, superlative most redcapped)

1. Alternative form of red-capped
   • 1900, Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History, page 737:

     Further that, in very truth, Journalist Deputy Gorsas, poisoner of the Departments, he and his Printer had their houses broken into (by a tumult of Patriots, among whom redcapped Varlet, American Fournier loom forth, in the darkness of the rain and riot); had their wives put in fear; their presses, types, and circumjacent equipments beaten to ruin; no Mayor interfering in time; Gorsas himself escaping, pistol in hand, "along the coping of the back wall."

   • 1948 June 18, LeCompte, Report (To accompany H.Res. 692):

     At another place, district 11 in Ogden in the same county, the redcapped CIO organization hired three colored women as extra registrants in that precinct, hotwithstanding, under the law, a qualified regularly appointed registrant had previously been appointed by the board of county commissioners to act as the registration agent.

   • 2011, Simon Sebag Montefiore, Jerusalem: The Biography – A History of the Middle East, page 466:

     On the Palm Sunday of Graham's visit, as Turkish soldiers beat back the pilgrims, the crowds poured out of the Church to 'much shrieking and skirling from the Orthodox Arabs, crying out in religious frenzy' until suddenly they were a attacked by 'a band of redcapped Turks and beturbaned Muslims who made a loud whoop and struck their way with blows, threw themselves on the bearer of the olive branch and gained possession, broke the branch to bits and ran off. An American girl snapped her Kodak. The Christian Arabs swore vengeance.'