stovepipe
[stohv-pahyp]
- a pipe, as of sheet metal, serving as a stove chimney or to connect a stove with a chimney flue.
- stovepipe hat.
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Origin of stovepipe
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He fingered the band on the stovepipe as if he saw it for the first time.
The Gentleman From IndianaBooth Tarkington
Those rosettes—these streamers—that stovepipe—all this blue ribbon.
The Gentleman From IndianaBooth Tarkington
In the other room, with the stovepipe in the middle of it, was a big couch, and that was to be my bed at night.
W. A. G.'s TaleMargaret Turnbull
The stovepipe was attached to the "air-tight" in the dining room.
Keziah CoffinJoseph C. Lincoln
"I was just tryin' to help Keziah take down her stovepipe," he explained.
Keziah CoffinJoseph C. Lincoln
stovepipe
- a pipe that serves as a flue to a stove
- Also called: stovepipe hat a man's tall silk hat
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