chimneypot

British  

/ ˈtʃɪmnɪˌpɒt /

noun

1. a short pipe on the top of a chimney, which increases the draught and directs the smoke upwards

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Example Sentences

Mr. Churchill loves fine clothes, silk underwear, cream-colored pajamas, soft linen handerkerchiefs, grey suede gloves, chimneypot hats and lounge suits with a sly pin stripe.

From Time Magazine Archive

There are civilians in black cape-coats of the military pattern, topped off with cold, uncomfortable, but fashionable chimneypot hats, or, more sensibly, with high caps of beaver.

From Russian Rambles by Hapgood, Isabel Florence

On festivals and state occasions they adopt the swallow-tail coat, chimneypot hat, and their accompaniments, displaying all the absurdity of our European fashionable dress.

From The Malay Archipelago, the land of the orang-utan and the bird of paradise; a narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature — Volume 1 by Wallace, Alfred Russel

"It's not exactly what you may have been accustomed to," he said nervously, putting it down beside the battered chimneypot, "but it might be of some use—a protection to the head, you know."

From The Story of an African Farm, a novel by Schreiner, Olive

Thereupon he smoothed the nap on his "chimneypot" hat, and blushed furiously.

From Fated to Be Free by Ingelow, Jean