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

The women wanted to know—and indignant were their inflections—why a certain lady attired in scarlet, hat and all, was permitted within the sacred precincts.

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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.

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He was in a long scarlet robe, edged with fur, and wore a three-cornered scarlet hat.

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

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Cecchi died last week, and lay in state all yesterday in his palace, on a high bier, with his face painted and rouged, wearing his robes, and with his scarlet hat on his head.

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