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Formal item of headgear
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top hat
Word definitions for top hat in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context idiomatic English) A man's formal hat, with a tall cylindrical crown (often of silk).
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A top hat is a tall hat worn primarily in the 19th and early 20th century. Top hat , Top Hat , Tophat or Top-hat may also refer to: Top Hat , a 1935 film starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers Top Hat (musical) , a 2011 stage musical adapted from the 1935 ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ At most weddings the bride wears a veil but at this wedding the bride was wearing a beautiful top hat . ▪ Beneath a top hat his face is pasty and bloated. ▪ Gentlemen will wear morning dress with top hat , or service dress. ▪ ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a man's hat with a tall crown; usually covered with beaver or silk [syn: dress hat , high hat , opera hat , silk hat , stovepipe , topper , beaver ]
Usage examples of top hat.
He left the top hat right on the table, but he reached out a hand toward it, uncertainly at first.
You can see that he is dressed in a long black coat which was called a frock coat, and a queer, shiny hat shaped like a stovepipe, which was called a top hat.
Presently feet were heard upon the stairs, the moneylender hurried out, there was a sound of whispering, and he returned with a large, fat, greasy-looking man, clad in a much worn frock-coat, and a very dilapidated top hat.
The couple were escorted by Albert, who'd raided Moss Bros for a top hat and morning coat for the occasion and when the Lord Chancellor had welcomed Guthrie to that special club of Queen's Counsel (on whose advice the Queen, luckily for her, never has to rely for a moment) they came back to Chambers where champagne (the N.
He rode a black stallion and was himself brave in villain's boots, white pegged breeches, cutaway, and top hat.
The summer outfit included a small top hat of a peculiar shape, making the wearer look, as I thought, like some fanciful creature from the pen of Lewis Carroll.
I wore my magician's top hat and filled my pockets with magic rings, my wand, flash paper, coins, scarves, ropes, and juggling balls.
He was a short, stout person in an extraordinarily shabby top hat, and he appeared to be very much out of breath.