forage cap

forage cap (plural forage caps)

1. Any of various originally military caps intended for undress or working use.
   • 1874, Marcus Clarke, For the Term of His Natural Life, Penguin, published 2009, page 199:

     Changing his forage cap for a soft hat, and selecting a stick from a miscellaneous collection in a corner, he prepared to retrace his steps.

   • 1903, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventures of Gerard‎^[1], Chapter 4:

     As to my dress, I covered my Hussar uniform with a long cloak, and I put a grey forage cap upon my head.

   • 1961, Xavier Herbert, Soldiers' Women, Netley, SA: Fontana Books, published 1978, page 88:

     Rather should it be said that these ladies wore dress of military style, since there was nothing uniform about their outfits, one being in powder-blue with silver buttons and a forage-cap, the other in tan with gold buttons and the dinkiest of red-peaked kepis.

   • 1994, Claire Tomalin, Mrs Jordan's Profession, Penguin, published 2012, page 45:

     [C]arpenters and scene painters, in their blouses and forage caps, moved about taking instructions, actors stood gossiping and going through their cues.