top hats
- plural of top hat.
Example Sentences
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Out step pompous diplomats, flick imaginary dust from immaculate morning coats, stride self-conciously up their embassy walks with top-hats a-glinting in the morning sun.
From Time Magazine Archive
Plates of thin bread-and-butter and wholemeal scones were provided for the ladies in galoshes, and the gentlemen in top-hats had lamb cutlets and custard in glasses.
From "Mary Poppins" by P. L. Travers
In one cage two large, middle-aged gentlemen in top-hats and striped trousers were prowling up and down, anxiously gazing through the bars as though they were waiting for something.
From "Mary Poppins" by P. L. Travers
Men moved about in all sorts of headgear; but there were no regulation top-hats, although in the Governor's Box "a bit of Ascot" was seen.
From The Sweep Winner by Gould, Nat
Frenchmen, under all superficial reactions, remained republican in spirit, as they had been when they first wore top-hats.
From A Short History of England by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)
