rat-skin cap

Northwest

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a warm peakless cap made from muskrat skin and often having earflaps.

Quotations

1848

A small rat-skin cap covers his head, and his legs are cased in the ordinary blue cloth leggins.

1965

. . . the earflaps on their rat skin caps [were] pulled well down.