shovel hat
noun
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.
shovel-hatted
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a word derived from
shovel hat.
Example Sentences
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Apparently the Church was interested in the election, for every shovel-hatted padre in the district seemed to have come in for it.
From A Woman's Impression of the Philippines by Mary Helen Fee
The Reverend Bute Crawley was a tall, stately, shovel-hatted man, far more popular in the county than the Baronet.
From History of English Humour, Vol. 2 by Alfred Guy Kingan L'Estrange
The Reverend Bute Crawley was a tall, stately, jolly, shovel-hatted man, far more popular in his county than the Baronet his brother.
From Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
Caricaturists delight to represent him so: round, short-necked, pimple-faced, apoplectic, bursting out of waistcoat, like a black-pudding, a shovel-hatted fuzz-wigged Silenus.
From The Book of Snobs by William Makepeace Thackeray
I struggled through the "Eikon Basilike" yesterday; one of the paltriest pieces of vapid, shovel-hatted, clear-starched, immaculate falsity and cant I have ever read.
From Characters from 17th Century Histories and Chronicles by Various
