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Top hat   /tɑp hæt/   Listen
Top hat

noun
1.
A man's hat with a tall crown; usually covered with silk or with beaver fur.  Synonyms: beaver, dress hat, high hat, opera hat, silk hat, stovepipe, topper.






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"Top hat" Quotes from Famous Books



... blooming production," put in Mr. Dillingford, with unction. "Including my dress suit and a top hat, to say nothing of a change of ...
— Green Fancy • George Barr McCutcheon

... instead of that old helmet on the floor, you would have seen a high-top hat—that is, if the old gentleman should continue to be as careless as the picture shows him; instead of a cross-bow on the floor, and another leaning against the chair, you would have seen a double-barrelled gun and ...
— Round-about Rambles in Lands of Fact and Fancy • Frank Richard Stockton

... in a hack and span. See there; the steeple-top hat, copper buckle and all! Isn't he too funny for anything! But, dear me! he is staring right up at this ...
— The Entailed Hat - Or, Patty Cannon's Times • George Alfred Townsend

... shut your eyes the opening night at the Opera you might have fancied yourself back at Covent Garden, London, for the types of well-turned-out men out-Englished the English, from top hat to ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 152, January 31, 1917 • Various

... of her own age, good-looking, with a soft, fair beard, and dark eyebrows that looked as though he had blacked them. He wore a top hat, and his overcoat, which was open, ...
— Look Back on Happiness • Knut Hamsun


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