Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.

RED CAP

Specialty Definition: RED CAP

DomainDefinition

Literature

Red Cap (Mother). An old nurse "at the Hungerford Stairs." Dame Ursley or Ursula, another nurse, says of her rival-
"She may do very well for skipper's wives, chandlers' daughters, and such like, but nobody shall wait on pretty Mistress Margaret ... excepting and saving myself."- Sir Walter Scott: Fortunes of Nigel. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Top     

Specialty Definition: Red Cap

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

In British folklore, Red Caps are malevolent goblin-like creatures that live in ruins found at the border between England and Scotland. They are said to murder travelers who stay in their homes and then stain their hats with their blood, giving them the name "Red Caps".

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Red Cap."

Top     

Crosswords: RED CAP

English words defined with "RED CAP": Boletus frostii, Boletus roxanaeFrost's boleteHygrophorus purpurascensLepiota rubrotincta. (references)
Specialty definitions using "RED CAP": Bonnet RougeRed Republicans. (references)

Top     

Modern Usage: RED CAP

DomainUsage

Lyrics

Now this red cap gets a wrap from these critics (Take A Look Around; performing artist: Limp Bizkit)

Movie/TV Titles

Red Cap (2003)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Top     

Commercial Usage: RED CAP

DomainTitle

Books

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Top     

Image Slideshow: RED CAP

Illustrations:
RED CAP

More pictures...

Computer Images:
RED CAP

More pictures...

Top     

Use in Literature: RED CAP

TitleAuthorQuote

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

Suddenly a man on horseback, dressed in black, appeared in the midst of the throng with a red flag, others say with a pike surmounted by a red cap.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Top     

Frequency of Internet Keywords: RED CAP

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

red cap

46

red cap oranda

8

little red cap

5

cincinnati red cap

4
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Top     

Modern Translation: RED CAP

Language Translations for "RED CAP"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Arabic 

  

‏حمال السكة الحديدية, ‏البوليس العسكري. (various references)

   

French

  

porteur, policier militaire. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

edray apcay

   

Romanian

  

soldat din poliţia militarã, hamal (carrier, dock laborer, dock labourer, drudge, lader, porter). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Top     

Anagrams: RED CAP

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: carped, craped, redcap.

Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-p-r"

-1 letter: acred, arced, cadre, caped, caper, cared, cedar, crape, drape, paced, pacer, padre, pared, raced, raped, recap.

-2 letters: aced, acre, aped, aper, cade, cape, card, care, carp, crap, dace, dare, dear, pace, pard, pare, pear, race, rape, read, reap.

-3 letters: ace, ape, arc, are, cad, cap, car, cep, dap, ear, era, pac, pad, par.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-d-e-p-r"
 

+1 letter: capered, cramped, crapped, parched, peracid, pranced, redcaps, scarped, scraped.

 

+2 letters: captured, carpeted, compadre, compared, copyread, endocarp, escarped, parceled, peracids, picrated, preached, preacted, prefaced, recapped, repacked, replaced, respaced, scarphed, scorepad, scrapped.

 

+3 letters: aperiodic, calipered, caprioled, carpooled, chaptered, clepsydra, compadres, comparted, copyreads, deprecate, endocarps, epicardia, hyperacid, pachyderm, paramedic, parcelled, parricide, patricide, pediatric, picadores, placarded, practiced, practised, predacity, predicate, prepacked, preplaced, purchased, reclasped, repatched, scampered, scarpered, scorepads, spaceward, upreached.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro.

Top     

Alternative Orthography: RED CAP


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

52 45 44      43 41 50

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010010 01000101 01000100 00100000 01000011 01000001 01010000

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#82 &#69 &#68 &#32 &#67 &#65 &#80

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0052 0045 0044      0043 0041 0050

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

5239382373550

Top     



INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Usage: Modern
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Images: Slideshow
5. Quotations: Fiction
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Translations: Modern
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.