The Collaborative International Dictionary
Stovepipe \Stove"pipe`\ (st[=o]v"p[imac]p`), n. Pipe made of sheet iron in length and angular or curved pieces fitting together, -- used to connect a portable stove with a chimney flue.
Stovepipe hat, A tall silk hat with a brim, worn commonly as an item of formal dress by gentlemen in the late 1800's. [Slang, U.S.]
Wiktionary
n. (context idiomatic English) A type of top hat worn mainly in the 19th century, made of silk or other materials and having a very tall, cylindrical, flat-topped crown.
Usage examples of "stovepipe hat".
His hand moved to his sparse silver locks to sweep the stovepipe hat off in an elegant bow, but he let it fall again to his side as he remembered that the ancient hat was now part of the flotsam and jetsam off the New Jersey shore.
Of course, he also carried the archaic, narrow-brimmed stovepipe hat of a shipyard manager.
They ducked under the trembling sec door, Doc Tanner having to stoop considerably to avoid knocking off his stovepipe hat.
He wore the black claw-hammer coat favored by ministers, had a skimpy cotton stock about his neck, and a new ten-inch-high beaver stovepipe hat which tapered inward about five inches above his head and then flared out to a considerable expanse of flatness on top.
Groucho picked up the stovepipe hat nearest the edge of the desk, leaned, and plopped it atop Marker's bald head.
He attracted no attention because he was dressed in the standard full-length black cassock and stovepipe hat of an Orthodox priest, and there were several of them in and around the church.
A legion of horribles, hundreds in number, half naked or clad in costumes attic or biblical or wardrobed out of a fevered dream with the skins of animals and silk finery and pieces of uniform still tracked with the blood of prior owners, coats of slain dragoons, frogged and braided cavalry jackets, one in a stovepipe hat and one with an umbrella and one in white stockings and a bloodstained weddingveil and some in headgear of cranefeathers or rawhide helmets that bore the horns of bull or buffalo and one in a pigeontailed coat worn back.
As Monday's battered stovepipe hat came gaily swooping and sideslipping down after her, Edge made the crossed-arms ×.
He took a seat beside the fantasy writer, doffed his stovepipe hat, and sampled his own drink.
Beside them, resting on some kind of brownish folded garment, was a high stovepipe hat of approximately the same color.