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also képi
as in tricorn
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Recent Examples of kepi
De Gaulle returned to Paris, walked the Champs-Élysées in his stiff kepi.
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Alexander Sammon, Harper's Magazine, 25 June 2022
Top fashion points go to the German racewalkers, who appeared to be paying homage to the famous white kepi of the French Foreign Legion.
—Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 10 Mar. 2021
Gendarmes walk the streets wearing kepi hats; the supermarkets sell vacherin and fond de veau.
—Kate Holstein, Condé Nast Traveler, 10 Apr. 2020
Alexander Sammon, Harper's Magazine, 25 June 2022
Top fashion points go to the German racewalkers, who appeared to be paying homage to the famous white kepi of the French Foreign Legion.
—Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 10 Mar. 2021
Gendarmes walk the streets wearing kepi hats; the supermarkets sell vacherin and fond de veau.
—Kate Holstein, Condé Nast Traveler, 10 Apr. 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for kepi
Noun
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Sutton Foster crochets Hugh Jackman a marching-band shako for the occasion.—
Bethy Squires,
Vulture,
7 Jan. 2025
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Tip o the shako to Heather Curtis.—
Phil Plait,
Discover Magazine,
25 Oct. 2012
Noun
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Authorities later found a ballistic helmet, night-vision goggles, respirators and ammunition in the car, along with a package of shooting range targets, some of which were used.—
Jessica Schladebeck,
New York Daily News,
24 Jan. 2025
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Also, don't try to be cool by not wearing a helmet.—
Gillian Telling,
People.com,
24 Jan. 2025
Noun
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The name comes from the distinctive head gear used, which are of course, green berets.—
Fernando Cervantes Jr.,
USA TODAY,
2 Jan. 2025
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Tara Lipinski's Daughter Georgie Is 'Reunited' with Mom's Skating Partner Johnny Weir: 'Just the Cutest' On the stroll around the streets of Paris, Georgia exchanged her baby pink beret for a baby pink hair bow headband.—
Emma Aerin Becker,
Peoplemag,
9 Aug. 2024
Noun
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Silk is also better for your beauty rest and the reason why silk scarves, bonnets, and pillowcases are so popular.—
Nena Farrell,
WIRED,
21 Jan. 2025
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Editors’ Picks Her followers sent her around $800 to help purchase leave-in conditioner, moisturizing shampoo, bonnets, edge gel and wide-tooth combs.—
Callie Holtermann,
New York Times,
16 Jan. 2025
Noun
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Many delegations treat the convention like senior week and wear matching outfits—Hawaii’s were obviously the best, but the Wisconsin delegates had their traditional postmodern tricornes shaped like cheese.—
Yiyun Li,
Harper's Magazine,
23 Sep. 2024
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Johnson made this conversation explicit by name-checking or picturing Evans, Lee Friedlander, Duane Michals, and Richard Avedon—the latter pops up here in a picture on a book cover, which Johnson has topped with a pirate’s tricorne hat.—
Vince Aletti,
The New Yorker,
22 July 2022
Noun
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Then armed men in black turbans, as if to justify their fear, opened fire into the crowd.—
Jazzmin Jiwa,
TIME,
16 Jan. 2025
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Young people copied her contemporary African fashion sense, wearing a turban with a formal suit or painting tribal dots on her face as part of her makeup.—
Lynsey Chutel,
New York Times,
7 Jan. 2025
Noun
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Cena also goes under the hood with country singer Jelly Roll in Nashville, and while a passenger in Jelly’s RAM 1500 Laramie learns about his journey from being a convict to fatherhood and stardom.—
Etan Vlessing,
The Hollywood Reporter,
16 Jan. 2025
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Sleek long lines, lithe limbs, hood buckled all the way to the top: every bit an extraterrestrial monarch.—
Anna Cafolla,
Vogue,
15 Jan. 2025
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Optimo stocks a variety of styles, including homburgs, porkpies, straw Panamas, and fedoras, the last of which is seen here.—
Abby Montanez,
Robb Report,
3 Mar. 2024
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At center is a war veteran, whose low-slung homburg casts a shadow over his heavy eyes: a dark band that contrasts with the white gauze wrapping his absent nose.—
Jason Farago,
New York Times,
10 Nov. 2023
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“Kepi.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/kepi. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
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