shovel hat

American  

noun

1. a hat with a broad brim turned up at the sides and projecting with a shovellike curve in front and behind; worn by some ecclesiastics, chiefly in England.

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shovel hat British  

noun

1. a black felt hat worn by some clergymen, with a brim rolled up to resemble a shovel in shape

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Other Word Forms

• shovel-hatted
  adjective

Example Sentences

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shovel hat

I wondered if he went round and round the cathedral, in his shovel hat and his gaiters, with her on his arm.

From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier

Then came a picture of a cheerful and corpulent ecclesiastic in a shovel hat, sitting opposite a very thin European, and the inscription: "Lunch with Fra Cristofero at Rosario."

From The Lost World by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

He is dressed in black with bands and a huge shovel hat.

From The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume III by Montague Summers

Spying Pen, he came and shook him by the hand, and eyed with wonder Pen's friend, from whose mouth and cigar clouds of fragrance issued, which curled round the Doctor's honest face and shovel hat.

From The History of Pendennis by William Makepeace Thackeray

The like of me to preach to a parson, all regular done up, bands and cassock and shovel hat and all!

From The Maidens' Lodge None of Self and All of Thee, (In the Reign of Queen Anne) by Horace Petherick