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† ˈcap-case Obs.
[? f. cap n.1 or cape n.1]
1. A travelling-case, bag, or wallet. (Representing the modern portmanteau or carpet-bag.)
1577Harrison England ii. xvi. (1877) i. 283 Feeling whether their capcases or budgets be of anie weight or not, by taking them downe from their sadles. 1632T. Deloney T. of Reading, [He] turned backe and called for a capcase which lay in the Warehouse. 1641Hinde J. Bruen 122 Thus many gamblers bring a Castle into a cap-case.
2. A receptacle of any kind; a box, chest, casket, case (L. capsa). Also fig.
1597Morley Introd. Mus. 164 Your two last barres you haue robde out of the cap-case of some olde Organist. 1608Dekker Belman Lond. Wks. 1884–5 III. 109 These Bawdy baskets..walke with baskets or capcases on their armes, wherein they haue laces, pinnes, needles. 1621Burton Anat. Mel. iii. iv. i. ii. (1651) 645 S. Philanus arm..shut up in a silver capcase. a1625Boys Wks. (1630) 259 Wormes shall haue their carcase, and vnthrifty heires their cap⁓case. a1627Middleton Changeling iii. iv, 'Twill hardly buy a capcase for one's conscience though. |