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- noun See
calpac .
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Examples
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Everywhere women were hard at work, hanging out washing, harvesting, shelling walnuts, building hayricks or even making mud bricks to bake in the sun while the men stood about chatting languidly in every village or squatted together at the roadside wearing their traditional tall Kyrgyz hats of embroidered felt, the ak kalpak, or the ornate pillbox hats of the Uzbeks.
Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
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Nearly all the men wore the kalpak and climbed giant trees in nothing more hi-tech than wellington boots to shake down the nuts.
Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
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Nearly all the men wore the kalpak and climbed giant trees in nothing more hi-tech than wellington boots to shake down the nuts.
Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
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Everywhere women were hard at work, hanging out washing, harvesting, shelling walnuts, building hayricks or even making mud bricks to bake in the sun while the men stood about chatting languidly in every village or squatted together at the roadside wearing their traditional tall Kyrgyz hats of embroidered felt, the ak kalpak, or the ornate pillbox hats of the Uzbeks.
Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
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He got up and stood very politely in front of Gloria Vanderman, removing his cossack kalpak for the first time and holding it with a peculiar suggestion of humility.
The Eye of Zeitoon Mundy, Talbot, 1879-1940 1920
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He was wearing a kalpak -- the head-gear of the cossack, which would make a high priest look outlawed, and a shaggy goat-skin coat that had seen more than one campaign.
The Eye of Zeitoon Mundy, Talbot, 1879-1940 1920
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He was wearing a kalpak -- the head-gear of the cossack, which would make a high priest look outlawed, and a shaggy goat-skin coat that had seen more than one campaign.
The Eye of Zeitoon Talbot Mundy 1909
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He got up and stood very politely in front of Gloria Vanderman, removing his cossack kalpak for the first time and holding it with
The Eye of Zeitoon Talbot Mundy 1909
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Though it is essentially an Aryan language like our own, and contains only a slight intermixture of Tartar words, -- such as bashlyk (a hood), kalpak
Russia Donald Mackenzie Wallace 1880
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He tore the embroidered coat from his body, and replaced it by his own, and, together with the kalpak, which Benedetto had thrown aside, completed his toilet.
The Son of Monte-Cristo, Volume I Jules Lermina 1877
chained_bear commented on the word kalpak
"a sheepskin cap." Who knew?
May 13, 2008
reesetee commented on the word kalpak
Really? *adds to "hats" list*
May 13, 2008
dontcry commented on the word kalpak
Sounds like a diet aide.
May 13, 2008
yarb commented on the word kalpak
For some reason I confuse this with hakapik.
May 14, 2008
dontcry commented on the word kalpak
Hakapik makes me think of Hookahpik -- and that make me laugh! Can you imagine how much more popular the Waterpik could have been...?
May 14, 2008
reesetee commented on the word kalpak
Especially if worn on one's head. ;-)
May 14, 2008
bilby commented on the word kalpak
What language?
May 14, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word kalpak
The language of freerice.com.
May 14, 2008
reesetee commented on the word kalpak
The definition I read said it derives from Turkish and that it's sometimes spelled calpac or calpack. :-)
May 14, 2008
bilby commented on the word kalpak
Thanks rt.
May 14, 2008