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stovepipe-hatted en · ADJ

Etymology

From stovepipe hat + -ed.

Meanings

1. (not-comparable) Wearing a stovepipe hat.
   • These were ordinary stage-coach bodies, which permitted through the doors and windows a clear view of the passengers within, who, in the old drawing of the train, are seen sitting in pairs on each of the three inside seats, in solemn, stovepipe-hatted dignity. 1883 April 21, “Railway Exposition Notes. More Curiosities.”, in The Railway Review, volume XXIII, number 16, Chicago, Ill.:
   • Just feet away stands a lanky, wooden Abraham Lincoln. An attached platform elevates the stovepipe-hatted former president to his nearly 6-foot-4 actual height. 2014 March 23, Susan Fadem, “Ex-flight attendant’s 1876 home boasts eclectic furnishings from around world”, in St. Louis Post-Dispatch, volume 136, number 82, page H3:
   • To smoke a cigar in the streets of London is to be singled out as either a millionaire or a Yankee. The pipe is universal in the British dominions. It is in the mouth of the club swell, the navvy on the docks, the stovepipe-hatted Eton schoolboy, and the homeless poor in Trafalgar Square. Why? Because the cost of English cigars is no less startling than their vileness. 1888 January 14, “London Types”, in Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, volume LXV, number 1,687, New York, N.Y., page 370:

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