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/ˈskʌlkæp/ · noun
A small domed cap that covers the area from the forehead to just above the back of the neck..
He was a short man with a long hooked nose. A blue skull-cap with a red border scarcely covered his head of bristly grey hair, and a short-bodied but long Ringerike coat of dark grey frieze with worn velvet borders served to make the roundness and crookedness of his back still more conspicuous.
“I call on all citizens of Berlin and across Germany to wear the yarmulke (as the skullcap is known in Yiddish) next Saturday if there are new, intolerable attacks targeting Israel and Jews on the occasion of Al-Quds Day in Berlin,” said Felix Klein in a statement.
The French government in 2004 banned “conspicuous” religious symbols including Muslim headscarves, Jewish skullcaps and large Christian crosses from French schools.
Use skull cap when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Skull cap means A small domed cap that covers the area from the forehead to just above the back of the neck..
Common synonyms include kippah, calvaria.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
He was a short man with a long hooked nose. A blue skull-cap with a red border scarcely covered his head of bristly grey hair, and a short-bodied but long Ringerike coat of dark grey frieze with worn velvet borders served to make the roundness and crookedness of his back still more conspicuous.
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