redcap

Example Sentences

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Cliff Campbell was a young Negro from Washington, D.C., a onetime Pullman porter and redcap, whom the depression had sidetracked from architecture into schoolteaching.

From Time Magazine Archive

And her father, a redcap at Los Angeles' Union Station, owns a roomful of hot records�Ella Fitzgerald, Duke Ellington, Louis Jordan.

From Time Magazine Archive

"Now, be careful," warned our redcap, Chester, as he carried our suitcases to our second-story sleeper on the silver superliner.

From Time Magazine Archive

Others: a hobo is a redcap, sinkers are dumplings, a K.O. is a commanding officer.

From Time Magazine Archive

A female redcap in armor steps onto the dais to grab the struggling consort.

From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black