Crossword clues for deerstalker
deerstalker
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Deerstalker \Deer"stalk`er\, n.
One who practices deerstalking.
A close-fitting cap, usually woolen, such as is worn in deerstalking, having a low crown and visors both in front and back, and having earflaps which are usually worn tied together over the top; also called fore-and-after, deerstalker hat and deerstalker cap; a hunter's cap; formerly also used for any stiff, round hat. [Eng.]
Wiktionary
n. 1 One who takes part in deer stalking. 2 (alternative form of deerstalker hat English)
WordNet
n. a tight-fitting hat with visors front and back; formerly worn by hunters
Wikipedia
A deerstalker is a type of cap that is typically worn in rural areas, often for hunting, especially deer stalking. Because of the cap's popular association with Sherlock Holmes, it has become stereotypical headgear for a detective, especially in comical drawings or cartoons along with farcical plays and films.
Usage examples of "deerstalker".
Inverness cape over his tweedy sports coat and had a Holmesian deerstalker cap on his head at a slightly skewed angle.
A group of men in deerstalkers and dung-coloured suits stood grimly beside a Land Rover.
She spread her hands to take in the Inverness, the deerstalker, and the calabash pipe.
He was wearing an Inverness cape over his tweedy sports coat and had a Holmesian deerstalker cap on his head at a slightly skewed angle.
Wiggins and I were silent for a time, my young friend sitting to my right with an amused expression, reminding me, in his deerstalker cap, even more of Holmes than he had on the previous night.
Appalled by the prospect of missing new bloodshed, Hasterwick grabbed frantically at a blotchyfaced man in a deerstalker cap, the flaps of which were down but flopping loose.
He was clad in a long Inverness cloak of a particularly gaudy heather-blue tweed, a matching deerstalker cap, and held in one clawed hand a magnificent calabash pipe.
Holmes paused to light his bull's-eye lantern, button his long coat, and jam his deerstalker cap more firmly down over his ears.
The only things missing were his famous predecessor's brass-bound magnifying glass and deerstalker cap.
Period novels lent gravitas to the paperbacks on the shelves, a deerstalker cap hung from the coatrack, and an old wooden index file held cards on real and imaginary crimes.
I wandered over to my old desk, sat down heavily in the chair, and lifted the deerstalker cap off the top of Sherlock Holmes's porcelain head.
The Hoka was not dressed in the outdoor clothes he had brought along, tweed jacket, plus-fours, deerstalker cap, and so forth.
There was a curled calendar on the wall behind him, featuring a girl, stripped to a G string, hip boots and a deerstalker cap, holding a BB gun.
The virtual Holmes had taken on the practice of replicating his familiar deerstalker cap and Inverness for these digital excursions.
He was wearing his dressing gown, pyjama bottoms, and, for some unguessable reason, a deerstalker hat with flaps in place.