An alternative spelling of calpac; a tall cylindrical hat worn in Ottoman and Central Asian cultures.
Variant spelling of 'calpac,' reflecting different transliteration systems from Turkish/Russian ('kalpak'). Both spellings were common in 18th-19th century English texts.
The multiple spellings of this word (calpac, calpack, calpak) show how English speakers were still figuring out how to write words from languages using different alphabets—there was no standard until dictionaries standardized the spelling.
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