gibus

American  

[jahy-buhs] / ˈdʒaɪ bəs /

noun

plural

gibuses

1. opera hat.

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gibus British  

/ ˈdʒaɪbəs /

noun

1. another name for opera hat

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Etymology

Origin of gibus

First recorded in 1840–50; named after Gibus, 19th-century Frenchman, its inventor

Example Sentences

His fashionable and expensive gibus flopped off and fell and rolled and lay neglected on the floor.

From Kipps The Story of a Simple Soul by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

Ispenlove stood leaning against the piano, as though intensely fatigued; he crushed his gibus with an almost savage movement, and then bent his large, lustrous black eyes absently on the flat top of it.

From Sacred and Profane Love by Bennett, Arnold

He left behind him a melting fragment of ice upon the floor, his gibus hat, warm and compressed in his chair, and in addition every social ambition he had ever entertained in the world.

From Kipps The Story of a Simple Soul by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

The craziness of the gibus hats beats description.

From The Cathedral by Huysmans, J.-K. (Joris-Karl)

Removing my gibus, and laying down my programmes and opera-glasses, I again sign myself One Who Has Gone to Pieces.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 93., October 1, 1887 by Various