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top hat
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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n. (context idiomatic English) A man's formal hat, with a tall cylindrical crown (often of silk).
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A top hat, beaver hat, high hat, silk hat, cylinder hat, chimney pot hat or stove pipe hat, sometimes also known by the nickname "topper", is a tall, flat-crowned, broad-brimmed hat, predominantly worn by men from the latter part of the 18th to the middle of the 20th century. By the end of World War II, it had become a rarity in ordinary dress, though it continued to be worn in specific instances, such as state funerals, also by those occupying prominent positions in the Bank of England and by certain City stock exchange officials.
, top hats are still worn at some society events in the UK, notably at church weddings and racing meetings attended by members of the royal family, such as Royal Ascot. They remain part of the formal uniform of certain British institutions, such as Eton College and the boy-choristers of King's College Choir. They are usually worn with morning dress or white tie, in dressage, and as part of servants' or doormen's livery.
The top hat was frequently associated with the upper class, and was used by satirists and social critics as a symbol of capitalism or the world of business. The use of the top hat persisted in politics and international diplomacy for many years, including at U.S. presidential inaugurations, the last being worn at the inauguration of John Fitzgerald Kennedy in 1961. The top hat also forms part of the traditional dress of Uncle Sam, a symbol of the United States, generally striped in red, white and blue.
The top hat is also associated with stage magic, both in traditional costume and especially the use of hat tricks.
A top hat is a tall hat worn primarily in the 19th and early 20th century.
Top hat, Top Hat, Tophat or Top-hat may also refer to:
- Top Hat, a 1935 film starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
- Top Hat (musical), a 2011 stage musical adapted from the 1935 film
- Top hat (lighting), a theatrical lighting device
- Top hat (roller coaster element)
- TopHat (telescope), a balloon-borne experiment to measure the cosmic microwave background
- Top Hat (TUGS), a recurring character in the children's television series TUGS
- Top Hat 25 and Top Hat 27, Australian-made sailing yachts
- Top-hat filter, a signal filtering technique
- Top-hat transform, a mathematics morphological operation
- TopHat (bioinformatics) is a bioinformatic tool for fast and high throughput alignment (eg by Bowtie) and mapping of shotgun transcriptomic sequencing reads (eg RNA-seq) to a reference genome to discover RNA splice sites.
- TOPHAT, cryptonym of Dmitri Polyakov (1921-1988), a Soviet general and a spy for the CIA.
- Tophat beam, a kind of laser beam
- Operation Top Hat, a "local field exercise" conducted by the United States Army Chemical Corps in 1953
- Top hat, another name for a steel batten
Top Hat the Musical is a 2011 stage musical based on the 1935 film of the same name, featuring music and lyrics by Irving Berlin with additional orchestration by Chris Walker. The show opened on 16 August 2011 at the Milton Keynes Theatre, touring the United Kingdom before transferring to the Aldwych Theatre in London's West End. Top Hat won multiple 2013 Laurence Olivier Awards after receiving seven nominations. The musical closed in London on 26 October 2013, with a UK and Ireland tour commencing in August 2014.
Usage examples of "top hat".
He left the top hat right on the table, but he reached out a hand toward it, uncertainly at first.
You can see that he is dressed in a long black coat which was called a frock coat, and a queer, shiny hat shaped like a stovepipe, which was called a top hat.
Presently feet were heard upon the stairs, the moneylender hurried out, there was a sound of whispering, and he returned with a large, fat, greasy-looking man, clad in a much worn frock-coat, and a very dilapidated top hat.
The couple were escorted by Albert, who'd raided Moss Bros for a top hat and morning coat for the occasion and when the Lord Chancellor had welcomed Guthrie to that special club of Queen's Counsel (on whose advice the Queen, luckily for her, never has to rely for a moment) they came back to Chambers where champagne (the N.
He rode a black stallion and was himself brave in villain's boots, white pegged breeches, cutaway, and top hat.
The summer outfit included a small top hat of a peculiar shape, making the wearer look, as I thought, like some fanciful creature from the pen of Lewis Carroll.
I wore my magician's top hat and filled my pockets with magic rings, my wand, flash paper, coins, scarves, ropes, and juggling balls.
He was a short, stout person in an extraordinarily shabby top hat, and he appeared to be very much out of breath.