dust cap
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[edit]Noun
[edit]- Something worn to protect one from dust; a cover placed over something to keep off dust.
- 1899, Kate Chopin, The Awakening:
- Ellen brought him one of her dust-caps, and went into contortions of mirth, which she found it impossible to control, when she saw him put it on before the mirror as grotesquely as he could.