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Felt hat with a creased crown
Answer for the clue "Felt hat with a creased crown ", 7 letters:
homburg
Word definitions for homburg in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. felt hat with a creased crown [syn: fedora , felt hat , Stetson , trilby ]
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A homburg is a formal felt hat characterized by a single dent running down the center of the crown (called a "gutter crown"), a stiff brim shaped in a "kettle curl" and a bound edge trim.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ He puts his homburg on and ventures into the blazing heat without glancing back at me.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
type of soft felt had with a curled brim and a dented crown, 1894, from Homburg , resort town in Prussia, where it was first made. Introduced to England by Edward VII.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
homburg \hom"burg\ n. [from Homburg, Germany, the place of first manufacture.] A felt hat with a crown that is creased lengthwise, and a brim that is slightly curled upward at the edge. Syn: fedora, felt hat, trilby.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (alternative form of Homburg English)
Usage examples of homburg.
They were all saying now that the homburg was some kind of a Fashion Statement, but William A.
There were hats of many kinds, some inherited from the period of Mongolian rule and an incongruous note was struck in recent times by the popularity of a felt hat like the European Homburg imported from India.
Old men in homburgs, young women with prams, intense young men in dark wool sweaters, a sausage vendor with cheeks like ripe peaches.
Old men in homburgs and young women with prams and intense young men in sweaters were whipping out machine pistols and rushing toward the party clumped around the two umbrellas.
He stood in the doorway of the haberdashery, and he looked around at the fedoras and derbies and caps and Homburgs, and he held his own hat in his hands and stared into the shop, waiting.
A couple of those fellows, looking prosperous with big bellies, expensive black suits, and homburgs, sat down across from Morrell and Guderian.
It was a proletarian crowd, women in cheap cotton shirtwaists, men in shirts without collars and wearing flat cloth caps on their heads, not bourgeois homburgs and fedoras or capitalist stovepipes.
More than a few men in the crowds lining Broadway sported straw hats instead of homburgs or caps, as if it truly were summer.
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.