n.
Variant: also fool's cap
Pronunciation: ' fülz- ˌ kap
Function: noun
Date: 1602
1 : a cap or hood usually with bells worn by jesters
2 : a conical cap for slow or lazy students
3 usually foolscap [from the watermark of a foolscap formerly applied to such paper] : a size of paper formerly standard in Great Britain broadly : a piece of writing paper
foolscap