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chimney-pot hat

[ chim-nee-pot ]

noun

, British.
  1. a high silk hat; top hat.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of chimney-pot hat1

First recorded in 1850–55

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Example Sentences

He had his new shiny black silk chimney‑pot hat on, and his Eton jacket, with the wide shirt collar.

The typical Yankee face, as drawn in Punch, is indeed the red Indian profile with a white skin and a chimney-pot hat.

The only thing he had left behind him was his tall chimney-pot hat.

La mode, for example, seems scarcely to exist at all; or at any rate to have taken refuge in the chimney-pot hat and the tournure.

To me a chimney-pot hat surmounting a cloak is as dire an outrage on poetic association as a Venetian bravo with a quizzing-glass.

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