caubeen

English
A British army caubeen with a cap badge and green hackle

Etymology

From Irish cáibín, from cába (“cape”)[1], from cappa (“cape”)[2]

Noun

caubeen (plural caubeens)

  1. (fashion) An Irish beret, formerly worn by peasants, later also adopted for army use.
    • 1850, Le Fanu, Billy Maloney's Taste of Love and Glory
      […] a bare-legged Celtic brother of the gentle craft, somewhat at the wrong side of forty, with a turf-coloured caubeen, patched frieze, a clear brown complexion, dark-grey eyes, and a right pleasant dash of roguery in his features […]

References
  1. “caubeen” (US) / “caubeen” (UK) in Oxford Dictionaries, Oxford University Press.
  2. “cába” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
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