recapped

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Not just robot hunters, but robot hunters - moustachioed, becapped, in riding coats or hacking jackets, turning the glowing red of their eyes this way and that, trying to pick me out of the undergrowth.

From Forbes • Aug. 27, 2013

With a glance back at the foe, they ran up the steps and rang the bell persistently until a becapped, flustered servant opened the door.

From A Son of the City A Story of Boy Life by Seely, Herman Gastrell

The door was opened by a becapped maid, and Hamilton was shown into a handsomely furnished drawing room.

From The Boy With the U.S. Census by Rolt-Wheeler, Francis

The present horror of anything elderly comes, probably, from the fact that the preceding generation went to the other extreme, young women retiring at forty into becapped old age. 

From The Ways of Men by Gregory, Eliot

She was a gentle, gray-haired, becapped old lady who never left her chair, saving for her bed at night.

From The Corner House Girls in a Play How they rehearsed, how they acted, and what the play brought in by Hill, Grace Brooks