cap band
- noun
:
banda de gorra
- The soldiers wore their uniforms complete with a distinctive cap band that marked their regiment.
Examples
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He adjusted his cap band to ensure it sat neatly on his head for the parade.
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For the ceremonial event, each officer's cap band was decorated with bright gold colors.
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They used shields and helmets from the new armory, and we made extra cap bands and nose pieces, shield rims, and bosses as the training exercises wore out the armory stock.
Fiction book (1991)
Synonyms
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1.3
A strip of different color or material used as decoration
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4.4
A band of cloth or ribbon around the crown of a hat to decorate and hold it on
Surface Forms
Morphology
The noun–noun composition is fully compositional: a 'cap band' is literally a 'band' (a strip encircling an object) on a 'cap' (headwear), so the overall meaning is directly derivable from the parts. This is a common, cross-linguistically transparent naming pattern for parts of clothing, so a B1 learner who knows both words should understand it.
Etymology
The noun cap band comes from the real, simple band of cloth that goes around the lower edge of a cap. Soldiers and officials used a different-color band to hide the join and to show their 'rank' or 'unit', so a cap band today still tells you who someone is.