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)

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)

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

Upon my word, she almost blew my gibus away from under my arm sometimes.

From Lippincott's Magazine Of Popular Literature And Science Old Series, Vol. 36—New Series, Vol. 10, July 1885 by Various

A man's hat, one of the sort called a gibus, which he knew was only worn with evening clothes, was hanging on one of the pegs in the passage.

From The Sailor by Snaith, J. C.