Here's another expression I've heard. The first two times I heard it, I had no idea what anyone was talking about. By the third time, I just asked. Each time someone said, "It's cape," we were talking about houses. One time someone was talking about different houses that were for sale and they described one as cape. Another time, someone was telling where an acquaintance lived and the directions were, "You go down the hill, past the red house that's cape, and it's at the top of the next hill."
Give up?
Cape Cod. They take the perfectly good descriptor, "It's a Cape Cod style house" and shorten it to "It's cape." I guess it should be with a capital "C" ?
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