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

Derived Forms

• shovel-hatted
  adjective

Example Sentences

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

The Abb� Coquereau was the first French Catholic priest who discarded the gown and the shovel hat, and adopted that of the English clergy.

From An Englishman in Paris Notes and Recollections by Albert D.

One of those science-haters, Blind as a mole or bat; To think of my going in gaiters, And wearing a shovel hat!

From English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History by Alden, Raymond MacDonald

Blind as a mole or bat, No faintest glimmer of light, And wearing a shovel hat, Morning and noon and night.

From English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History by Alden, Raymond MacDonald

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 A History of Pendennis, Volume 1 His fortunes and misfortunes, his friends and his greatest enemy by Thackeray, William Makepeace