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Definition of Czapka
1. chapka [n -S] - See also: chapka
Lexicographical Neighbors of Czapka
Literary usage of Czapka
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Beethoven's Letters: A Critical Edition : with Explanatory Notes by Ludwig van Beethoven, Alfred Christlieb Kalischer, John South Shedlock (1909)
"V. czapka to whom Beethoven offers such striking testimony, displayed both love
and zeal on the composer's behalf. "Carl's dissolute companion " was a young ..."
2. The Historians' History of the World: A Comprehensive Narrative of the Rise by Henry Smith Williams (1907)
"... a measure which had been proposed as early as 1838, by Burgomaster czapka.
Walter, a municipal councillor, who was in the chair, moved the adoption of ..."
3. Use of Water in Irrigation by Samuel Fortier (1916)
"The measure of water is the "czapka" (meaning hoe) which is sometimes taken as
... The established practice is to u3e one czapka of water per day for each ..."
4. The Cambridge Modern History by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero, Ernest Alfred Benians (1911)
"Czarniecki, Stephen, Polish general, defeated by Charles X, IT 582 sq. ; invades
Jutland, 688 czapka, Ignaz, ..."
5. The Life of Ludwig Van Beethoven by Alexander Wheelock Thayer (1921)
"... might allow him to go to his mother's, and to guard against this he wrote two
letters to that official, a man kindly disposed toward him, named czapka. ..."
6. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"... with scales and cloth cap; the lancers, a blue-tunic with metal epaulettes,
and the czapka, or lancer cap; and the hussars, a blue tunic and cloth cap. ..."
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