deerstalker
Americannoun
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a person who stalks deer.
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Also called fore-and-after. a close-fitting woolen cap having a visor in front and in back, with earflaps usually raised and tied on top of the crown, worn as a hunting cap: especially associated with Sherlock Holmes.
noun
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Also called: stalker. a person who stalks deer, esp in order to shoot them
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a hat, peaked in front and behind, with earflaps usually turned up and tied together on the top
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Etymology
Origin of deerstalker
First recorded in 1810–20; deer + stalker ( def. )
Example Sentences
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I have an entire shtick around my love for escape rooms, including a deerstalker hat and tweed.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 27, 2021
Woolens became such a status symbol that Arthur Conan Doyle clad his fictional sleuth Sherlock Holmes in a tweed deerstalker hat in 1893.
From National Geographic ● Jan. 14, 2021
People who love finding out the back stories in fictional universes — why Sherlock Holmes wears a deerstalker hat; where Indiana Jones got his scar — will relish the chance to learn these details.
From New York Times ● May 19, 2020
He was wearing his trademark tweed deerstalker and a large digital watch-cum-calculator.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 20, 2016
A potbellied man in a deerstalker hat offered three dollars for a five-dollar set of candlesticks and Soraya let him have it.
From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini
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