silk hat
noun
a tall, cylindrical, black hat covered with silk plush, worn by men for formal dress.
silk-hatted
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a word derived from
silk hat.
Example Sentences
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In their black turtlenecks and faded jeans they don't seem to have anything in common with Rupert Murdoch or the grim-faced, silk-hatted capitalist bosses of old.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 30, 2012
One senses his reticence in Fantin-Latour's portrait of the artist, silk-hatted and self-contained.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 9, 2011
Strolling in Spruce Street in the sultry sunshine, they snickered at the university's ubiquitous silk-hatted trustees, snapped up Willkie buttons from Willkiettes who handed them out in front of Houston Hall, Bicentennial headquarters.
From Time Magazine Archive
Arthur Train, whose silk-hatted Lawyer Ephraim Tutt has long been a famous fiction, had some real lawyer trouble to worry about.
From Time Magazine Archive
On one occasion as, fur-coated, silk-hatted, he entered the dock, he nodded familiarly to the late Sir Augustus Harris, but that magnate of the theatrical world deliberately turned his back upon the playwriting celebrity.
From The Trial of Oscar Wilde From the Shorthand Reports by Anonymous
