Definition of Opera hat

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


Lexicographical Neighbors of Opera Hat

opepe
opepes
oper
opera
opera bouffe
opera buffa
opera cake
opera citato
opera cloak
opera comique
opera company
opera glove
opera hat (current term)
opera hood
opera house
opera houses
opera singer
opera singers
opera star
operabilities
operability
operable
operably
operad
operads
operagoer
operagoers

Literary usage of Opera hat

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

1. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1888)
"I felt that my magic opera-hat was less than a blessing—that it was nearer a curse ! A SLAVE OF FASHION. " WHAT KIND OF BOOKS ARE READ ..."

2. The Covent Garden Journal by John Joseph Stockdale (1810)
"... called " the Frog in the opera hat." (Morning Chronicle, Nov. /, 180J). ... opera hat ..."

3. Harper's New Monthly Magazine by Henry Mills Alden (1854)
"I warrant he hadn't Ai« opera-hat on when he went to chapel with her ladyship the,next morning—that very morning, as sure as my name's John Giles. ..."

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