capped

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

From cap + -ed. Piecewise doublet of caped, chaped, and coped.

"Yeah; the queer part was that the last one--and now they were ten-footers--was capped! — A Martian Odyssey, Stanley G. (Stanley Grauman) Weinbaum
Their capped heads were seen uncovering one after the other, in the gloom, at the lugubrious question addressed to them by the president in a low voice. — Notre-Dame de Paris, Victor Hugo
Majuba is composed of alternate strata of sandstone and shale lying nearly horizontal and capped--as is often the case in these mountains--by a bed of hard igneous rock (a porphyritic greenstone). — Impressions of South Africa, James Bryce, Viscount Bryce

cap, crest

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