whitecapped

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English

Etymology

From white +‎ capped.

Adjective

whitecapped (not comparable)

  1. (poetic) Capped with whiteness (such as snow or sea foam).
    • 2003, Kadiatou Diallo, Craig Thomas Wolff, My heart will cross this ocean: my story, my son, Amadou:
      I went to the Tucson Gem Trade Exhibition and then flew over brown and whitecapped mountain ridges and giant green squares to New York City.
    • 2009 August 30, Laura M. Holson, “A Dip Into Hollywood”, in New York Times:
      And Ms. Davies’s 7,000-square-foot guesthouse, the only building from the original estate to survive, is already a favorite among card-playing foursomes and others who want to lounge on the second-story deck and watch dolphins bob in the whitecapped waves.