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redcap

[red-kap] / ˈrɛdˌkæp /


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Therefore Minister Olaya, unattended, went to the Union Station, handed his bag to a redcap, boarded an ordinary Pullman to New York where he went into seclusion.

From Time Magazine Archive

He went to Colgate University, hurled the javelin on the track team, worked summers as a redcap in Manhattan's Grand Central Terminal.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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

From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black


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