gibus
Americannoun
noun
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Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of gibus
First recorded in 1840–50; named after Gibus, 19th-century Frenchman, its inventor
Example Sentences
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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
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
A large cherry-coloured gibus, on its wrong side——" "At the present moment," said I, wrestling with the Sealyham's advances, "we're more concerned with your future than with your past.
From Jonah and Co. by Yates, Dornford
“What the—” “Devil” his lordship was going to say, for something struck him on the top of his gibus hat.
From Lady Maude's Mania by Fenn, George Manville
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