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

Reginald Denny, smooth, silk-hatted bachelor about to be married, found himself the possessor of an orphan baby.

From Time Magazine Archive

Cartoonist Batchelor's fat, silk-hatted "Old Deal" first appeared in the New York Daily News on Jan. 5, 1936.�ED.

From Time Magazine Archive

First to emerge was a group of the younger knights, frock-coated, silk-hatted, pale gray of waistcoat and gloves, white and effulgent of boutonnière.

From New Faces by Neagle, Charles F.