Crossword clues for homburg
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
homburg \hom"burg\ n. [from Homburg, Germany, the place of first manufacture.] A felt hat with a crown that is creased lengthwise, and a brim that is slightly curled upward at the edge.
Syn: fedora, felt hat, trilby.
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
n. (alternative form of Homburg English)
WordNet
Wikipedia
Homburg or Hombourg may refer to
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. The city is also home to the Karlsberg beer brewery. Major employers include Michelin and Robert Bosch GmbH.
"Homburg" was the rock band Procol Harum's follow-up single to their initial 1967 hit " A Whiter Shade of Pale". Written by pianist Gary Brooker and lyricist Keith Reid, "Homburg" reached number 6 in the UK charts, number 15 in Canada, and number 34 in the United States. It went to number one in several countries, including Australia, South Africa, and the Netherlands.
Reid's "Homburg" lyrics contains the same surreal, dream-like imagery and feelings of resignation and futility as in the debut single. The music also features Matthew Fisher's rich and deep Hammond organ, but the piano and guitar have bigger places in the overall sound. The theme is not as clearly Bach-like as in "A Whiter Shade of Pale"; nevertheless, the single was, on its release, criticised for being too similar to its predecessor.
The B side of the single is "Good Captain Clack" which was taken from the album Procol Harum.
Homburg is one of the 299 single member constituencies used for the German parliament, the Bundestag. One of four districts covering the state of Saarland, it covers the county of Saarpfalz-Kreis, the town of Neunkirchen, the municipality of Friedrichsthal and the towns of Quierschied and Spiesen-Elversberg.
The constituency was created for the 1976 election, replacing the former St. Ingbert constituency. It was held by the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) until the 2009 election, when the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) candidate Alexander Funk gained it. He secured another narrow victory in the 2013 election.
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.