Crossword clues for hatstand
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hatstand \Hat"stand`\ (h[a^]t"st[a^]nd`), n. A stand of wood or iron, with hooks or pegs upon which to hang hats, etc.
Wiktionary
a. (context UK slang English) crazy, insane. n. (context UK English) A device used to store hats upon. Usually made of wood and standing at least five foot tall, they have a single pole making up most of the height, with a sturdy base to prevent toppling, and an array of lengthy pegs at the top for placement of hats.
Wikipedia
A hatstand (UK), hatrack (US) or coat rack is a device used to store hats and often coats on, and umbrellas within. Some upscale catalogues in Europe markets it as a portmanteau from the French words Porter (carry) and Manteau (cloak).
The front hall was the introduction to the house, and as such was an important part of the Victorian home. Furnishings were selected not only to make it a useful place to hang a hat and coat, store an umbrella and leave a calling card, but also to show family wealth, social position and knowledge of current styles. A hall stand or a hatrack was the most important piece of furniture. These were new forms that appeared about 1840, as homes became larger and social visits became more structured; see also Hall Tree.
Usually made of wood and standing at least tall, they have a single pole making up most of the height, with a sturdy base to prevent toppling, and an array of lengthy pegs at the top for placement of hats. Smaller houses had smaller front halls, so a hanging hatrack was the answer to the problem of storing visitors' coats and hats. The complicated shapes of the spindles and hooks of both varieties created an interesting pattern on the wall.
By the 1920s, houses had become smaller, and hall furnishings were usually just a chair, a table and perhaps a mirror - a closet or cupboard held hats and coats.
In Breakdancing, the hatstand refers to the first part of a frozen Headspin.
Usage examples of "hatstand".
Seeing that there is nobody, he enters cautiously until he has come far enough to see into the hatstand corner.
There was furniture down here, an old hatstand and a table in a hallway, even a piece of threadbarelooking carpet.
Ace tried to explain things to Dekker, who had spotted the hatstand and hung up his trenchcoat and hat.
Dekker went over to the hatstand, put on his battered soft hat and his shabby trenchcoat.
The real darkmaster, the real truth, somehow still evaded me even now, as I stood up and lifted a cloak from a hatstand and breathed the waft of its cologne as I put it about my shoulders.
I stood up and lifted a cloak from a hatstand and breathed the waft of its cologne as I put it about my shoulders.
All the miscellaneous props with which it had been piled, hatstands, baskets, boxes and wooden pedestals, went crashing to the floor, and at the same instant Grace, who had been edging toward the door unobserved by either Connie or the floorwalker, clicked the switch that controlled the single overhead night light.
The third carried furniture: Victorian love seats, armoires, beds with richly carved roses, dressers, commodes, pier mirrors, hatstands in walnut and oak.
There was a small hallway with a couple of hatstands, only nobody had bothered to check his hat.
Beyond him I could see Sara standing impatiently amongst the forest of bentwood hatstands, Welsh dressers, bronze statuettes, library steps, and commodes.
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.
Relatives, he knew, were never inclined to credit odd propensities in those who had become as unexcitingly familiar as hatstands.