A type of traditional headgear worn in families of many Hasidicrabbis, by unmarried children on Shabbat and by rabbis on special occasions. It is a made from brown fur (as opposed to a spodik, worn by Polish Hasidic dynasties, which is fashioned out of black fur).
Origin
From Turkish kalpak. calpack.
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