trilby
Americannoun
noun
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a man's soft felt hat with an indented crown
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slang (plural) feet
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of trilby
1895–1900; short for Trilby hat, after the hat worn by a character in an illustration for the novel Trilby (1894) by George du Maurier
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Last year, when he became the first trainer to saddle 100 career winners at the Cheltenham Festival, he gave a tip of his trilby and a wave to the crowd.
From BBC ● Apr. 5, 2025
Kim exited, hoisted a black trilby hat and smiled, before stepping down onto a carefully placed red carpet.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 24, 2019
“The timing was unbelievable,” says Thayil, 58, bearded with a graying ponytail unfurling from beneath a pinstriped trilby hat.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 15, 2018
He had eight or nine staff, some of them in this photograph – the older man in the trilby at the back was the park keeper.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 18, 2017
I snatch a trilby from Mr. Berrycloth’s coat rack.
From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin
And food bloggers will insist that anytime someone orders a proper old fashioned, bartenders from Brooklyn to Seattle should tip their vintage trilbies in Jon Hamm’s general direction.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 3, 2015
Sometimes in the paddock she would adopt a respectful whisper, identifying famous owners by the backs of their Barbours and stiffened trilbies.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 12, 2013
Back home they bought new houses, Mercs, Bimmers, clothes, trilbies … even a new hotel.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 15, 2013
All this order is turned to chaos by a silent movie-style crowd of men in trilbies hunting the hard-to-hide knight.
From The Guardian ● May 19, 2012
It is pleasant to picture the scene: two hard-drinking alpha males in serious trilbies smacking a big desk and barking at each other over the niceties of punctuation.
From "Eats, Shoots & Leaves" by Author
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