red hat
the broad-brimmed official hat of a Roman Catholic cardinal, symbolic of the office or rank of a cardinal.
a cardinal.
Origin of red hat
1- Also called scarlet hat.
Words Nearby red hat
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How to use red hat in a sentence
Some were nice, like when people in elevators chuckled over Otto’s expressive eyebrows sitting beneath his bright red hat with a green stem shooting out the top, and we got to explain that it was his “Tom-Otto” hat knitted by one of my students.
My Pandemic Baby Is Pulling Us Out of Our Cozy Cave. But How Will the World See a Disabled Mother Like Me? | Rebekah Taussig | April 28, 2021 | TimeThe potentate had countless red hats, green hats and blue hats.
The potentate has countless red hats, green hats and blue hats.
How High Can You Count With Menorah Math? | Zach Wissner-Gross | December 11, 2020 | FiveThirtyEightThe Countess bowed stiffly to the red hat, and the red hat responded with eager fulsomeness.
The Regent | E. Arnold BennettShe eloped in a hat, a big red hat, three white feathers—one hundred and seventy-five dollars.
Murder in Any Degree | Owen Johnson
He was dressed in yellow, sulphur-coloured robes, with a high-peaked conical red hat on his head, which was shaven.
The Bible in Spain | George BorrowBut the conferring of the red hat always takes place at the hands of the pope in a public consistory.
“I for my part, to tell the truth, do not think that the red hat is my highest honour,” he was accustomed to say.
A History of the Reformation (Vol. 2 of 2) | Thomas M. Lindsay
British Dictionary definitions for red hat
the broad-brimmed crimson hat given to cardinals as the symbol of their rank and office
the rank and office of a cardinal
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