Definition of Top hat

1. Noun. A man's hat with a tall crown; usually covered with silk or with beaver fur.


Definition of Top hat

1. Noun. (idiomatic) A man's formal hat, with a tall cylindrical crown (often of silk). ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Top Hat

top edged
top edges
top edging
top executive
top fermentation
top fermenting yeast
top flight
top fruit
top fruits
top gear
top gun
top guns
top hand
top hands
top hat (current term)
top hats
top hole
top it off
top kill
top lift
top line
top lines
top notch
top of mind
top of mind awarenesses
top of the hour
top of the inning
top of the line

Literary usage of Top hat

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Putnam's Magazine (1907)
"The top hat represents the, universal language of attire. ... The eccentric cowboy in the top hat finished his allotted task, and in company of his cow and ..."

2. Putnam's Magazine (1907)
"The top hat represents the universal language of attire. ... The eccentric cowboy in the top hat finished his allotted task, and in company of his cow and ..."

3. The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow: A Book for an Idle Holiday by Jerome Klapka Jerome (1891)
"If, on the other hand, he decides in favour of the top hat and umbrella—nobody would ever dream of going out in a top hat without an umbrella— it would be ..."

4. Studies in English, Written and Spoken: For the Use of Continental Students by Cornelis Stoffel (1894)
"Another, but by no means vulgar, term to denote the black cylinder of respectability, is top-hat, a word that has hitherto failed to find its way to the ..."

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