stocking cap
noun
: a long knitted cone-shaped cap with a tassel or pom-pom worn especially for winter sports or play
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Both of them wore their stocking caps pulled down beneath the hoods of their anoraks.
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Ann Patchett, New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2025
When Mitchell broke into the house, she was dressed in all black, with a black stocking cap, and carried items such as a covered flashlight and a prybar.
—Ingrid Harbo, Twin Cities, 24 Sep. 2025
Her most popular services are $254 sew-ins, where human hair extensions are woven into braids, and $125 quick weaves, where human or synthetic hair is styled and then glued to a stocking cap.
—Arriana McLymore, USA Today, 20 Aug. 2025
Donning stocking caps and bundled up in winter coats against an April chill, hundreds of protesters held picket signs along the sidewalks of Emmanuel Cleaver II Boulevard and Main Street.
—Kendrick Calfee, Kansas City Star, 5 Apr. 2025
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Ann Patchett, New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2025
When Mitchell broke into the house, she was dressed in all black, with a black stocking cap, and carried items such as a covered flashlight and a prybar.
—Ingrid Harbo, Twin Cities, 24 Sep. 2025
Her most popular services are $254 sew-ins, where human hair extensions are woven into braids, and $125 quick weaves, where human or synthetic hair is styled and then glued to a stocking cap.
—Arriana McLymore, USA Today, 20 Aug. 2025
Donning stocking caps and bundled up in winter coats against an April chill, hundreds of protesters held picket signs along the sidewalks of Emmanuel Cleaver II Boulevard and Main Street.
—Kendrick Calfee, Kansas City Star, 5 Apr. 2025
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“Stocking cap.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/stocking%20cap. Accessed 31 Oct. 2025.
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