capstring
A string that fastens a cap on the wearer's head.
Noun
- A string that fastens a cap on the wearer's head.
- By this well-managed ruse he came into possession of a scarlet breast-knot from Mrs. Dashwood; a black crape capstring from Mrs. Faithful; a smelling bottle from Juliet; and a pencil-case from Blanche[…] - 1840,...
- He had scarcely finished the sentence when the door opened, and in rushed Toppin's wife, making such havoc of her capstrings, which she pulled and twisted in her excitement, that one might have been induced to suppose...
Origin
From cap + string.