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dunce's cap
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dunce cap also dunce's cap (dnsz)
n.
A cone-shaped paper cap, formerly placed on the head of a slow or lazy pupil. Also called fool's cap.
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Noun1.dunce's cap - a cone-shaped paper hat formerly placed on the head of slow or lazy pupilsdunce's cap - a cone-shaped paper hat formerly placed on the head of slow or lazy pupils
dunce cap, fool's cap
chapeau, hat, lid - headdress that protects the head from bad weather; has shaped crown and usually a brim
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This kind of thing used to be routine in Communist China in the era of Mao Zedong’s despotism, but, if press reports are accurate, the days of putting dunce caps on innocent people and making them confess to crimes of thought and speech are over in China: These days, they just jail them.
Coach Wears a Dunce Cap, But We\'d5re Not Sure Why by Nicholas von Hoffman / The New York Observer
They should have been sent to the corner with dunce caps on their heads.
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