porkpie hat
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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“Never judge a book by its contents,” quipped a wag in a porkpie hat as we both regarded the cover of an aging paperback guide to vitamins, for sale on a Broadway sidewalk.
From New York Times ● Nov. 23, 2024
Some sly military-industrial complex humor creeps in as Oppenheimer, clad in his signature gray waistcoat and rumpled porkpie hat, leads this massively complicated undertaking at the surly behest of Col.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 19, 2023
But Murphy did offer up that they worked hard to get Oppenheimer’s look right, from the narrow silhouette to the pipe and the porkpie hat.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 13, 2023
In the back of the dark hall, before the show started, Bolz-Weber ran into Doug Pagitt, a progressive evangelical pastor, who was wearing a porkpie hat.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 8, 2019
And he had Cool Papa Byrd’s porkpie hat.
From "Clayton Byrd Goes Underground" by Rita Williams-Garcia
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