redcap

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Mrs. Rudkin had her husband tote them on the train daily into Grand Central, where he paid a redcap to deliver them to Charles & Co.

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

Like, for example, as a redcap, Madoc needs bloodshed the way a mermaid needs the salt spray of the sea.

From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black