Bathing-cap

Oiled Silk and Linen Great Coats, Cloaks, Hoods, Capuchins, Riding Aprons, Bathing-caps and Hat-caſes; […]

Alſo various Kinds of Perfumery, Oil’d Silk and Linen Bathing-Caps, Ladies Hoods and Hat-Covers, Gentlemens’^([sic]) Hat-Covers and Caſes, and Riding Aprons, on reaſonable Terms.

Beſt Oiled Lawn Bathing-Caps at 1 s. 8 d. each.—Beſt Oiled Silk Bathing-Caps at 2 s. 6 d. each.

The dog drew him to ſhore by ſeizing hold of his bathing-cap.

From the carpet-bag she took out seven flannel nightgowns, four cotton ones, a pair of boots, a set of dominoes, two bathing-caps and a postcard album.

I believe the artist counts on us to chuckle at the fact that in contrast to Michelangelo’s Christ-like titans who were sometimes constrained by classical bindings around their chests, his aerobicized new-age Christ figures suffer the indignity of too-tight bathing-caps.

It’s hard to pick a winner, but I have to go for the rubber bathing-cap she wore to kiss Richard Burton.

Morrison, the leader of their inner circle of campus radicals, in the yellow winding-sheet, his freckled face covered with pancake make-up, his red hair stuffed into a yellow bathing-cap, announcing he would immolate himself at dawn.