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
Many wear Victorian dress, including Holmes’s preferred deerstalker cap and Inverness cape.
From New York Times ● Jan. 14, 2018
Laurence, 23, from Paris is wearing a deerstalker and is a member of the Sherlock Holmes Society in France.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 17, 2016
In the original Sherlock Holmes stories Sherlock Holmes is never described as wearing a deerstalker hat, which is what he is always wearing in pictures and cartoons.
From "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" by Mark Haddon
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