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havelock (HAV-lok) - n., an attachment for a cap that covers and protects the back of the neck and ears from the sun.
Including an improvised handkerchief over the neck held in place with the cap. Living in a desert, I see these a lot (and have a cap that used to have a snap-on one, long since detached and lost) but didn't have a better word for it than "neck-flap." Now I know. This is an Americanism that first appeared in 1861, supposedly named after Sir Henry Havelock (1795-1857), an English general in India, which ... doesn't quite make sense.
---L.
Including an improvised handkerchief over the neck held in place with the cap. Living in a desert, I see these a lot (and have a cap that used to have a snap-on one, long since detached and lost) but didn't have a better word for it than "neck-flap." Now I know. This is an Americanism that first appeared in 1861, supposedly named after Sir Henry Havelock (1795-1857), an English general in India, which ... doesn't quite make sense.
---L.
