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derby
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Word definitions in WordNet
n. a hat that is round and black and hard with a narrow brim; worn by some British businessmen [syn: bowler hat , bowler , plug hat ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
type of hat," manufactured in U.S. 1850, name appears 1870, perhaps from annual Derby horse race in England, where this type of hat was worn. Race was begun 1780 by the 12th Earl of Derby; the name was used for any major horse race after 1875. Derby the ...
Usage examples of derby.
Derby day minus five, and the number of people standing on the backstretch rail had grown with the increased number of horses appearing on the track.
The barns were closed to people not directly concerned with the Derby horses.
She had met her first husband while working as a carhop at the Brown Derby Drive-In in Los Feliz in the late 1940s, while still in her teens.
Walden wrote a popular book, A Dog-Puncher in the Yukon, and he and his Chinook dogs - the famous sire himself and a team of his offspring - won the first Eastern International Sled Dog Derby in 1922.
Hotel Derby and Grand Hotel Regina, which flanked the Grindelwald train station, as he crossed the platform toward the cogwheel train.
Thankfully, Valerian people loved their demolition derbies and had pitched in.
He had won three Kentucky Derbies, and on Saturday he would be out for his fourth win in ten years.
He, too, had won three Derbies and wanted to make it four on Saturday.
His jockey was a grim-faced veteran of twelve Derbies who had never had a winner.
I have taken some liberties with the geography of Derbyshire and with the city of Derby itself.
He is named Gilyak, and was the winner of the Peking Derby for China ponies.
Seen a Hester Bateman inkstandish pledged for a half-a-crown Derby roll-up bet.
An arrangement between Lord Derby and the Peelite financier was much talked of, and scandalized the country.
The Prince Pretender reduces Carlisle, and penetrates as far as Derby.
Some said that he escaped in the disguise of a scrubwoman and would return one day to lead resurgent hordes of derby and cigar.