chimney-pot hat en · NOUN
Meanings
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(informal) A type of cylindrical top hat traditionally worn as formal attire.
They have a peculiar style of dress which they wear among themselves, a close-fitting white shirt with black trousers, and a black frock or upper shirt. The women seem to prefer a dress entirely black. On festivals and state occasions they adopt the swallow-tail coat, chimney-pot hat, and their accompaniments, displaying all the absurdity of our European fashionable dress.
1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume I, London: Macmillan and Co., page 471:
Forms
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| chimney-pot hats | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Translations (2)
ga hata ard síoda (the cylindrical top hat traditionally worn by gentlemen) · ru цили́ндр (the cylindrical top hat traditionally worn by gentlemen)