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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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
Hucksters are pleading their varied wares in the plaza, and here and there a shovel-hatted priest is given reverential right of way.
From A Midsummer Drive Through the Pyrenees by Edwin Asa Dix
Frank Lara so dispenses with a liberal hand; and is therefore styled “Don” Francisco—saluted as such by the sandalled monks and shovel-hatted priests who come in contact with him.
From The Flag of Distress A Story of the South Sea by Mayne Reid
There are boys' schools out for a walk in charge of shovel-hatted priests.
From A Woman's Impression of the Philippines by Mary Helen Fee
He was a "tall, stately, jolly, shovel-hatted rector."
From Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer
