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Answer for the clue "Topper holder ", 8 letters:
hatstand

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Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. (context UK slang English) crazy, insane. n. (context UK English) A device used to store hats upon. Usually made of wood and standing at least five foot tall, they have a single pole making up most of the height, with a sturdy base to prevent toppling, ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hatstand \Hat"stand`\ (h[a^]t"st[a^]nd`), n. A stand of wood or iron, with hooks or pegs upon which to hang hats, etc.

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
A hatstand (UK), hatrack (US) or coat rack is a device used to store hats and often coats on, and umbrellas within. Some upscale catalogues in Europe markets it as a portmanteau from the French words Porter (carry) and Manteau (cloak). The front hall was ...

Usage examples of hatstand.

Seeing that there is nobody, he enters cautiously until he has come far enough to see into the hatstand corner.

There was furniture down here, an old hatstand and a table in a hallway, even a piece of threadbarelooking carpet.

Ace tried to explain things to Dekker, who had spotted the hatstand and hung up his trenchcoat and hat.

Dekker went over to the hatstand, put on his battered soft hat and his shabby trenchcoat.

The real darkmaster, the real truth, somehow still evaded me even now, as I stood up and lifted a cloak from a hatstand and breathed the waft of its cologne as I put it about my shoulders.

I stood up and lifted a cloak from a hatstand and breathed the waft of its cologne as I put it about my shoulders.

All the miscellaneous props with which it had been piled, hatstands, baskets, boxes and wooden pedestals, went crashing to the floor, and at the same instant Grace, who had been edging toward the door unobserved by either Connie or the floorwalker, clicked the switch that controlled the single overhead night light.

The third carried furniture: Victorian love seats, armoires, beds with richly carved roses, dressers, commodes, pier mirrors, hatstands in walnut and oak.

There was a small hallway with a couple of hatstands, only nobody had bothered to check his hat.

Beyond him I could see Sara standing impatiently amongst the forest of bentwood hatstands, Welsh dressers, bronze statuettes, library steps, and commodes.

He saw nothing of interest–two olive green filing cabinets, a hatstand by the door, on which he counted six more or less identical grey homburgs, and a sideboard with a heavy carafe of water and some glasses.

Relatives, he knew, were never inclined to credit odd propensities in those who had become as unexcitingly familiar as hatstands.