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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
fedora
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ An image of a white face under a white fedora.
▪ Coming in his direction was a man in a trenchcoat and fedora.
▪ He was wearing a scarf, an overcoat, and a gray fedora hat.
▪ I had chips of brick on the brim of my fedora.
▪ I took the fedora from the hat peg and perched it over my brow.
▪ It was filled with crazy clothes: worn velvet dresses, sequined sweaters, oversized satin pants and a crushed fedora.
▪ Lou Rigatoni laughed and doffed his hat, which Madame Astarti thought was a fedora but wasn't sure.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
fedora

fedora \fe*do"ra\ (f[i^]*d[^o]r"[.a]), n. A soft felt hat with a crown creased lengthwise.

Syn: felt hat, homburg, Stetson, trilby.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
fedora

type of hat, 1887, American English, from "Fédora," a popular play by Victorien Sardou (1831-1908) that opened 1882, in which the heroine, a Russian princess named Fédora Romanoff, originally was performed by Sarah Bernhardt. During the play, Bernhardt, a notorious cross-dresser, wore a center-creased, soft brimmed hat. Women's-rights activists adopted the fashion. The proper name is Russian fem. of Fedor, from Greek Theodoros, literally "gift of god," from theos "god" (see theo-) + doron "gift" (see date (n.1)).

Wiktionary
fedora

n. A felt hat with a fairly low, creased crown with a brim that can be turned up or down.

WordNet
fedora

n. felt hat with a creased crown [syn: felt hat, homburg, Stetson, trilby]

Wikipedia
Fédora
"Fédora" redirects here. For the opera adapted from this play, see Fedora (opera).

Fédora is a play by the French author Victorien Sardou. The first production in 1882 starred Sarah Bernhardt in the title role of Princess Fédora Romanoff. She wore a soft felt hat in that role which was soon a popular fashion for women; the hat became known as a Fedora.

The play was turned into an opera, Fedora, by Umberto Giordano in 1898. In 1916 it was adapted into the Hungarian film White Nights, directed by Alexander Korda.

Fedora (opera)

Fedora is an opera in three acts by Umberto Giordano to an Italian libretto by Arturo Colautti, based on the play Fédora by Victorien Sardou. Along with Andrea Chénier and Siberia, it is one of the most notable works of Giordano.

It was first performed at the Teatro Lirico in Milan on 17 November 1898 conducted by the composer with Gemma Bellincioni creating the role of Fedora, and Enrico Caruso as her lover, Loris Ipanov.

Fedora (film)

Fedora is a 1978 West German-French drama film directed by Billy Wilder. The screenplay by Wilder and I. A. L. Diamond is based on a novella by Tom Tryon included in his collection Crowned Heads, published in 1976. The film stars William Holden and Marthe Keller.

Fedora (operating system)

Fedora (formerly Fedora Core) is an operating system based on the Linux kernel, developed by the community-supported Fedora Project and sponsored by Red Hat. Fedora contains software distributed under a free and open-source license and aims to be on the leading edge of such technologies.

, Fedora has an estimated 1.2 million users, among them Linus Torvalds, creator of the Linux kernel.

Fedora (disambiguation)

A fedora is a type of hat.

Fedora may also refer to:

Fedora (KGB agent)

Fedora was the codename for Aleksy Isidorovich Kulak (1923–1983), a KGB-agent who infiltrated the United Nations during the Cold War. While working in New York, Kulak contacted the FBI and offered his services. Kulak told his American handlers there was a KGB mole working at the FBI, leading to a decades-long mole hunt that seriously disrupted the agency. It's not clear whether Kulak was acting as a double agent supplying false information or whether his information was legitimate.

Fedora (1918 film)

Fedora is a 1918 American silent drama film directed by Edward José and written by Charles E. Whittaker, after the play with the same name by Victorien Sardou. The film stars Pauline Frederick, Alfred Hickman, Jere Austin, William L. Abingdon, and John Merkyl. The film was released on August 4, 1918, by Paramount Pictures. Its survival status is classified as unknown, which suggests that it is a lost film.

Fedora (1913 film)

Fedora is a 1913 Italian silent film directed by Achille Consalvi and starring Claudia Zambuto..

Usage examples of "fedora".

John Barrymore Dix, the Armorer, as he stood by her elbow, pushing back his fedora.

The bluesman had put on his leather fedora and was holding it fast against the wind.

The didgeridoo player arrived just in time, as Isa was trying to persuade Lewis to throw away his brown fedora.

From beneath the expensive fedora, which boasted what looked like a small fly-whisk tucked neatly into the hatband on the left side, emerged white, slightly curly hair that in places still showed insinuations of blond.

Somehow he has left his German fedora with its little bluebird feather in the headband back at the osteria, and his head, bald as an egg and becoming, alas, even balder, went completely numb under its peaked bonnet of snow before he discovered it.

Millicent Kent a slanted noir-style fedora and Tall Paul Shaw, way in back, a conquistadorial helmet and escudo, and Mary Esther Thode a plain piece of cardboard propped on her head that says HAT.

Gennadi Potemkin hunched up the collar of his charcoal-gray overcoat and adjusted the angle of his fedora as he hurried out of the lobby of the Hyatt Regency two blocks from the train station and approached the waiting Lincoln Continental.

He wore a dark suit and fedora with a germ mask over his face, like any midlevel salaryman afflicted with a head cold but duty-bound to go to work.

They would have large, dark motor cars, and would be wearing overcoats and thick gloves and black fedoras, and we would be able to spot them immediately and run away.

There was time enough to put on a clean suit and tie and her nattiest fedora before the cab arrived to take her to dinner.

That's sweet, Jonesy thinks, then the film jumps and here's an old dude in a rusty black topcoat and a fedora hat - call this elderly dickweed old Mr What'd-l-Do.

Their dark features were concealed beneath the brims of fedoras pinned and hung with fragments of antique gold: stickpins, charms, teeth, mechanical watches Bobby watched them covertly.

He has a Pancho Villa mustache, yellow aviator glasses, a black fedora.

When Goto Dengo was young, his father had owned a fedora with English writing on its ivory silk liner, and a briar pipe, and tobacco that he bought through the mail from America.

Tachyon arrived dressed like a foreign correspondent from some film noir classic, in a trench coat covered with belts, buttons, and epaulettes, a snap-brim fedora rakishly tilted to one side.