chimneypot
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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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
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 Alfred Russel Wallace
Thereupon he smoothed the nap on his "chimneypot" hat, and blushed furiously.
From Fated to Be Free by Jean Ingelow
Hundreds of sheepskins, wadded coats, fur caps, and chimneypot hats swarm there, like crabs in a sieve.
From The Cook's Wedding and Other Stories by Constance Garnett
Dorking was a dapper little man, almost dissociable from gloves and a chimneypot.
From The King of Schnorrers Grotesques and Fantasies by Israel Zangwill
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