havelock

¹ American  

[hav-lok] / ˈhæv lɒk /

noun

1. a cap cover with a flap hanging over the back of the neck, for protection from the sun.

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Havelock ² American  

[hav-lok, -luhk] / ˈhæv lɒk, -lək /

noun

1. a town in SE North Carolina.

2. a male given name.

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havelock British  

/ ˈhævlɒk /

noun

1. a light-coloured cover for a service cap with a flap extending over the back of the neck to protect the head and neck from the sun

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Etymology

Origin of havelock

1860–65, named after Sir Henry Havelock (1795–1857), English general in India

Example Sentences

Being a little disappointed that she didn’t think I would also know—I didn’t—I asked her what a havelock was.

From "Silent To The Bone" by E.L. Konigsburg

I see him walking about Piccadilly in his green havelock almost every day. 

From The Secret Agent a Simple Tale by Conrad, Joseph

Under them lay the color guard; the scabbarded swords252 of the colonel and his staff were stuck upright in the ground, and the blanket-swathed figures of the officers in poncho and havelock reposed close by.

From Special Messenger by Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)

He is a fine-looking man, with black eyes and hair, set off by a white havelock.

From Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe Compiled From Her Letters and Journals by Her Son Charles Edward Stowe by Stowe, Harriet Beecher

Thinking, as he stood with Paul Blecker, leaning over the gate, of how she had brought him a badly-made havelock that morning.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 67, May, 1863 by Various