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PRONUNCIATION OF CAP AND BELLS

cap and bells play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF CAP AND BELLS

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Cap and bells is a noun.
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WHAT DOES CAP AND BELLS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

cap and bells

Cap and bells

A cap and bells is a type of fool's cap, a cap with bells worn by a court fool or jester. The cap and bells was could be in the following forms: ▪ with "ass's ears" and an "ass's tail", often curling forward ▪ with two horns ▪ with a "cockscomb" crest Bells were also added to the dangling sleeves. The bells announced the apppearance of the jester. Other forms of fool's cap in England were shaped like a monk's cowl with ass's ears, a high-pointed cap covered with bells, or a round cap with an imposing feather. A fool's scepter is a rod with a dummy head wearing the cap and bells.

Definition of cap and bells in the English dictionary

The definition of cap and bells in the dictionary is the traditional garb of a court jester, including a cap with bells attached to it.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE CAP AND BELLS

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Capablanca
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WORDS THAT END LIKE CAP AND BELLS

alarm bells
bells
Book of Kells
Bow Bells
coralbells
Kells
Newtown St Boswells
Royal Tunbridge Wells
Sadler´s Wells
the bells
tubular bells
Tunbridge Wells
walk on eggshells
Wells
wind-bells

Synonyms and antonyms of cap and bells in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «cap and bells» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF CAP AND BELLS

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Translator English - Chinese

盖和钟
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

tapa y campanas
570 millions of speakers

English

cap and bells
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

टोपी और घंटी
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

غطاء و أجراس
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

шапка и колокола
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

cap e sinos
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

টুপি এবং ঘন্টাধ্বনি
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

marotte
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Topi dan loceng
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Schellenkappe
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

キャップと鐘
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

모자와 종
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Tutup lan lonceng
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

nắp và chuông
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

தொப்பி மற்றும் மணிகள்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

टोपी आणि घंटा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Şapka ve çanlar
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

berretto a sonagli
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

czapka i dzwonki
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

шапка і дзвони
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

capac și clopote
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

καπάκι και κουδούνια
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

cap en klokke
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

mössa och klockor
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

cap og bjeller
5 millions of speakers

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «CAP AND BELLS»

The term «cap and bells» is used very little and occupies the 154.024 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «CAP AND BELLS» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about cap and bells

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CAP AND BELLS»

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The Cap and Bells
Including a small section of optional two-part writing near the end, "The Cap and Bells" is written primarily for unison voices with a sophisticated text and incorporating a challenging flute part and optional percussion and hand clapping.
William Butler Yeats, 2010
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Cap and Bells...
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.
Samuel Minturn Peck, 2011
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Cap and Bells: A Play in Two Acts
This is the story of how Ciampa's philosophy fails him when his boss's wife, Beatrice Fiorica, becomes convinced her husband is sleeping with Nina.
Luigi Pirandello, Norman A. Bailey, 1975
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In Cap and Bells
Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Owen Seaman, 2012
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The Cap and Bells: A Comedy in Three Acts
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.
Baron Robert Gilbert VanSittart VanSitta, 2012
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Victorian Keats and Romantic Carlyle: The Fusions and ...
These differences particularly inform our understanding of Keats's poem, The Cap and Bells; or, The Jealousies and can be illustrated by it. That poem, however, is itself a development from earlier works, especially "The Eve of St Mark" and ...
C. C. Barfoot, 1999
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John Keats, Updated Edition
We begin to gloss that character and the episode in which he figures by remarking the general resemblance of this material to the dramatic donnée of ' The Cap and Bells', the poem Keats composed shortly after 'Lamia'. Like the Emperor ...
Harold Bloom, 2009
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A Commentary on the Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats
71 THE CAP AND BELLS This poem was written in 1893 and first appeared in NO (17 March 1894) with the title 'Cap and Bell'. The present title was used in WR . Yeats's note reads : I dreamed this story exactly as I have written it, and dreamed ...
Alexander Norman Jeffares, 1968
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Artistic Outlaws: The Modernist Poetics of Edith Sitwell, ...
These lines refer to, and probably ridicule, W. B. Yeats' s poem "The Cap and Bells", where a jester succeeds in winning a young queen's (physical) love by symbolically giving himself to her as his "cap and bells". Sitwell's theme of a speaker ...
Sonja Samberger, 2005
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Yeats and the Visual Arts
2 1 ).45 But in "The Cap and Bells" the queen does not actually wear flowers: her hair is first "flower-like," then "a folded flower" ( VP 160, 161). The resolution of the simile into the metaphor follows the poem's general resolution of the world of  ...
Elizabeth Bergmann Loizeaux, 2003

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CAP AND BELLS»

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The Keg of KBBS
The man wore motley. He had on a tight-fitting parti-striped dress, and his head was surmounted by the conical cap and bells. I was so pleased ... «BeerAdvocate.com, Jul 15»
2
Integrity & intelligence
“The monarch's failing was that he all too often made those whose real capacities fitted them for the cap and bells into his dukes and captains” (India's China ... «Frontline, May 15»
3
'Hashtagfour' delivers array of student-run plays
... particular show planned, the '62 Center banner that advertises the College's theater and dance seasons would soon read “Cap and Bells #4. «The Williams record, May 15»
4
Daniel Barenboim and Staatskapelle Berlin, Royal Festival Hall …
She found a limpid expressiveness for the Largo, and put on cap and bells for the exuberant finale. The revelations came at pivotal points: ... «The Independent, Apr 15»
5
Michael Pennington on How to be an Actor
... ingratiatingly self-mocking, as if we were either earnest vicars or Uriah Heeps in cap and bells. Mine goes on the presumption that performers ... «Irish Times, Jan 15»
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'Water by the Spoonful' infuses dark plot with warmth
'Water by the Spoonful,' Cap and Bells' latest production, showed last weekend at the '62 Center. Photo courtesy of Cap and Bells. «The Williams record, Nov 14»
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Bert Newton, top second banana to TV's Don Lane and Graham …
The jester's cap and bells became interchangeable between them, and neither was strictly designated as comic or straight man. They could ... «The Australian, Oct 14»
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Cap and Bells injects humor into Shakespeare classic
'Stage Blood,' a Cap and Bells production that showed two weekends ago, reinterprets Shakespeare with great success. Photo courtesy of ... «The Williams record, Oct 14»
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CC cuts funding to 'Frosh Revue'
The group, which is part of the umbrella Cap and Bells theater organization, parodies first year life at Williams, performing a number of times ... «The Williams record, Oct 14»
10
A Jester's Tale – Philip French on Karel Zeman's gift for cinematic …
... sides several times, accompanied by a cynical old mercenary and a pretty country girl, Lenka, who dresses in a jester's cap and bells. «The Guardian, Oct 14»

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