bell-topper

British  

noun

1. obsolete a tall silk hat

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Example Sentences

This was a tall, elderly, erect man dressed in black broad-cloth, with a bell-topper and a very voluminous white choker.

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“Nothing on earth to do there, and they wanted me to wear a bell-topper hat on Sunday.”

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The frock coat had been "restored," the rag cap was abandoned in favour of a limp bell-topper, contributed by the family of a benevolent clergyman, and the tan boots were artistically blacked with stove polish.

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They thowt they were big swells, and had on black coats, white shirts, stiff collars up to their ears, red and green neck-handkerchers, and bell-topper hats; so I just touched one of em on th' showder and said: 'Would you please tek your hats off to let th' lads see th' pictures?'

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And the devil began yelling, but he could not move, and Billy kept drawing the nose out till it was long enough to reach over the window, when he put an old bell-topper on the end of it.

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