half cap
English
Noun
half cap (plural half caps)
- (archaic) A small salute with a cap
- c. 1605–1608, William Shakespeare, “The Life of Tymon of Athens”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act II, scene ii]:
- After distasteful looks, and these hard fractions,
With certain half-caps and cold-moving nods, They froze me into silence.