dunce’s cap
noun/ˈdʌnsɪz kæp/
/ˈdʌnsɪz kæp/
(North American English also dunce cap)
- a pointed hat that was sometimes given in the past to a child in a class at school who was slow to learnTopics Clothes and Fashionc2
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