Definitions

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  • noun A brimless Russian fur cap.

Etymologies

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From Russian шaпкa ("hat").

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Examples

  • We had paid for our repairs in bottles of Moldovan wine, which evidently works wonders—the shapka wearers made the car run better than it ever had.

    Finding Yourself in a Country That Isn't Neil Strauss 2011

  • Mr. Carter indeed collects hats (a replica Napoleonic cap and a Revolutionary wig-and-hat combo rest on his dresser), and throughout the most recent bedtime-story night, he mingled around the house in an outlandish cream shapka.

    Once Upon a Time, in East London... 2009

  • Last time I had a panic attack in the middle of the night, I dozed through the wee hours of the morning wearing a shapka.

    7 Random And/Or Weird Things About Me, Again 2008

  • The Russians have a saying: "Tyajela ti shapka manomakha" — "The crown of the czar is very heavy."

    The Accidental Autocrat 2005

  • The Russians have a saying: "Tyajela ti shapka manomakha" — "The crown of the czar is very heavy."

    The Accidental Autocrat 2005

  • At the St. Petersburg bookstore, Mozgov purchased a pair of Russian novels and a furry shapka-ushanka, a military hat.

    NYT > Home Page By HOWARD BECK 2010

  • At the St. Petersburg bookstore, Mozgov purchased a pair of Russian novels and a furry shapka-ushanka, a military hat.

    NYT > Home Page By HOWARD BECK 2010

  • I have a servant for that kind of thing, Katoma _dyadka_, of the oaken _shapka_. "

    Russian Fairy Tales A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore William Ralston Shedden Ralston 1858

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  • A brimless Russian hat of fur or sheepskin. See ushanka.

    February 15, 2008

  • "Covering her head and her ears was a huge white Arctic fox shapka."

    —Richard Stone, Mammoth: The Resurrection of an Ice Age Giant (Cambridge, Mass.: Perseus Publishing, 2001), 198

    September 22, 2008