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zitful
A colleague asked me about this word. It appears several times in the novel "A Tree Grows In Brooklyn" in the phrase "zitful cap." Neither of us has a clue what this means. There are a couple of...
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Looks like German. "Zipfelkappe" = "pointed cap" or so, I think. "Zipfel" = "point"/"tail"/"tassel". Probably one of those long-tailed caps with a pom-pom or so. Google Images for "zipfelkappe" and...
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Note that the first occurrence of the term (start of Chapter 26) is: "Mama made her wear her zitful cap (Katie's own name for a wool stocking cap)..." Obviously the name comes from the German word,...
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