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Hat style for the well-dressed man
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homburg
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Wikipedia
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Homburg is a town in Saarland , Germany , the administrative seat of the Saar-Palatinate district. With a population of c. 44,000 inhabitants, is the third city in its federal state. The medical department of the University of Saarland is situated here. ...
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.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. felt hat with a creased crown [syn: fedora , felt hat , Stetson , trilby ]
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.
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.