rare. [ad. Ger. tarnkappe.] A magic cap, securing the invisibility of the wearer.
1818. European Mag., LXXIV. Nov., 388, note. Their [dwarfs’] tarn-caps, or veils, made them invisible.
1856. R. A. Vaughan, Mystics (1860), I. 3. Rings of Gyges, coats of darkness, tarn-caps, and other means of invisibility.
