Definition of "hunting-cap" [hunting-cap]

• A cap worn in the hunting-field, resembling a jockey-cap, but stiffer and harder. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Redgauntlet threw from him the plate on which he had been eating, and hastened towards the door of the barn, which the courier at that moment entered; a smart jockey with a black velvet hunting-cap, and a broad belt drawn tight round his waist, to which was secured his express-bag."
• "“We shall be more at our ease,” said a tall thin old man, about seventy-five years of age, dressed in blue cloth, and wearing his hunting-cap by permission of the ladies."
• "What a snug dressing-room he has, complete in all its appointments, and in which he appears trying on the delightful hunting-cap which Mrs. Briggs flings into the fire!"