chimney-pot hat

American  

[chim-nee-pot] / ˈtʃɪm niˌpɒt /

noun

British.

1. a high silk hat; top hat.

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Etymology

Origin of chimney-pot hat

First recorded in 1850–55

Example Sentences

Next in order of demerit and impossibility comes the chimney-pot hat, which is not lacking in character, but is ugly and ridiculous.

From The History of "Punch" by Spielmann, M. H. (Marion Harry)

There could be no mistake about the vicar; he wore a chimney-pot hat of silk, that had begun to curl at the brim, anticipatory of being adapted as that of an archdeacon.

From A Book of Ghosts by Baring-Gould, S. (Sabine)

"You will soon be inventing," I said to a resident, "a machine that will take a live rabbit at one end, and turn out a chimney-pot hat at the other."

From Jonathan and His Continent Rambles Through American Society by Allyn, Jack

Nature has adorned him with a cock eye and a yard of mouth, and art, with a prodigiously tall white chimney-pot hat with the crown out, a cotton nightcap, and a wondrous congeries of rags. 

From Letters from the Cape by Duff Gordon, Lucie, Lady

He wore a chimney-pot hat, a tight-fitting, long, black coat, and lavender spats.

From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 09 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Reformers by Hubbard, Elbert