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- noun fashion An Irish
beret , formerly worn by peasants, later also adopted for army use.
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Examples
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But what shall I say of the pendiment, or caubeen, which is
Willy Reilly The Works of William Carleton, Volume One William Carleton 1831
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It was this renaissance that gave the death-blow to the squireen type of phoney Irish writing which created that charmingly-inane myth wearing a "caubeen", smoking a "dudheen", long upper-lipped, with shamrocks growing from his ears-the stage Irishman.
The Irish Mind 1957
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My "caubeen" especially excited the risibility of the merry boys who thronged the streets.
The Felon's Track History Of The Attempted Outbreak In Ireland, Embracing The Leading Events In The Irish Struggle From The Year 1843 To The Close Of 1848 Michael Doheny 1834
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[A tip of the caubeen to the New Oxford Review.] posted by John at 8: 11 PM
Vocations John 2008
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Their weapons were the caubeen, the alpeen, and the doodeen of the country — the latter a short but dreadful weapon of offence.
Burlesques 2006
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Their weapons were the caubeen, the alpeen, and the doodeen of the country — the latter a short but dreadful weapon of offence.
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The cavalier was a light-built fellow, with good-humoured sun-burnt features, a shrewd and lively black eye, and a head covered with a crop of close curly black hair, and surmounted with a turf-coloured caubeen, in the pack - thread band of which was stuck a short pipe, which had evidently seen much service.
The Purcell Papers 2003
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Stephen looked down on a wide headless caubeen, hung on his ashplanthandle over his knee.
Ulysses 2003
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My friend of the caubeen and naked shanks, then, commenced, and continued his relation, as nearly as possible, in the following words:
The Purcell Papers 2003
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Well, they hunts around for th 'jug awhile, but all they finds is his ould caubeen.
The Luck of the Mounted A Tale of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police Ralph S. Kendall
brtom commented on the word caubeen
Stephen looked down on a wide headless caubeen, hung on his ashplanthandle over his knee.
Joyce, Ulysses, 9
January 5, 2007