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pork⋅pie
[pawrk-pahy, pohrk-] 
–noun
| a snap-brimmed hat with a round, flat crown, usually made of felt. |
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| pork·pie (pôrk'pī', pōrk'-) n. A man's hat having a low flat crown and a flexible brim. Also called porkpie hat. |
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porkpie
round hat with a turned-up brim and a flat crown. The porkpie, so called because of its shape, became popular with both men and women in the mid-19th century, though a similarly shaped hat had been worn in the European Middle Ages.
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