scarlet hat

American  

noun

1. red hat.

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scarlet hat British  

noun

1. another term for red hat

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Example Sentences

As well say why a cirrus cloud is better than a sycamore and a sycamore better than a scarlet hat.

From Select Conversations with an Uncle (Now Extinct) And Two Other Reminiscences by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

She had a little scarlet hat pulled down over her curly brown hair, and she wore a simple blue traveling-suit that set off her slender figure perfectly.

From The Plastic Age by Marks, Percy

As he said these words a grey-haired priest entered, bearing on a cushion the scarlet hat of a prince of the church, and following him, half-a-dozen gentlemen, and grooms of the chamber.

From The Honour of Savelli A Romance by Levett-Yeats, S. (Sidney)

The scarlet hat, the laurell'd stave        Are measures, not the springs, of worth;      In a wife's lap, as in a grave,        Man's airy notions mix with earth.

From The Splendid Spur by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir

“Gained the purple”: i.e., the cardinalate, from the scarlet hat, stockings, and cassock worn by cardinals.

From The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning by Berdoe, Edward