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chimney-pot hat
[ chim-nee-pot ]
noun
, British.
- a high silk hat; top hat.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of chimney-pot hat1
First recorded in 1850–55
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Example Sentences
He had his new shiny black silk chimney‑pot hat on, and his Eton jacket, with the wide shirt collar.
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The typical Yankee face, as drawn in Punch, is indeed the red Indian profile with a white skin and a chimney-pot hat.
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The only thing he had left behind him was his tall chimney-pot hat.
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La mode, for example, seems scarcely to exist at all; or at any rate to have taken refuge in the chimney-pot hat and the tournure.
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To me a chimney-pot hat surmounting a cloak is as dire an outrage on poetic association as a Venetian bravo with a quizzing-glass.
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