redcap
Example Sentences
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A Pacific University graduate who once worked as a redcap despite a journalism degree, he was taken on as a copy boy in 1952.
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
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
Others: a hobo is a redcap, sinkers are dumplings, a K.O. is a commanding officer.
From Time Magazine Archive
Even I, who have grown up in the house of a redcap, fear goblins.
From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black
