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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chimneypot

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 Isabel Florence Hapgood

"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 Olive Schreiner

Dorking was a dapper little man, almost dissociable from gloves and a chimneypot.

From The King of Schnorrers Grotesques and Fantasies by Israel Zangwill

The stranger took off his hat, a tall, battered chimneypot, and disclosed a bald head, at the back of which was a little fringe of curled white hair, and he bowed to Tant Sannie.

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