porkpie hat
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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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
Outside of a few more wisps of gray in his beard, he hasn’t changed much, dressed in his typical all-black with an omnipresent porkpie hat.
From New York Times ● Apr. 27, 2021
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
Anne’s sheik was wearing a black-and-orange-striped blazer, gray Oxford bags, a bow tie on an elastic band, and a brown triangular porkpie hat, pinched into a bowsprit at the front.
From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey
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