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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scarlet hat

“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

There was no mistaking him; his red hose and scarlet hat were the only ones on board his ship.

From Marguerite De Roberval A Romance of the Days of Jacques Cartier by Marquis, T. G.

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

King Richard cannot have been considered dowdy, even by comparison, when he rode on that high red saddle graven with golden lions, with his great scarlet hat and his vest of silver crescents.

From The New Jerusalem by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)

I must not forget to say that I never failed to look at the wonderful scarlet hat in the window every time I went out or came in.

From Crowded Out! and Other Sketches by Harrison, S. Frances (Susie Frances)