stovepipe hat

noun

, Older Slang.

1. a tall silk hat.

Word History and Origins

Origin of stovepipe hat¹

An Americanism dating back to 1850–55

Example Sentences

Lawyer Whittle was fined two pecks of apples and cigars for wearing a stovepipe hat and so the fun went on, day after day.

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You see, that tall hatthink of a stovepipe hat 69 on a boy of seventeen!made Purt the tallest person at the party.

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As previously reported I toted a borrowed frock coat and stovepipe hat.

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He wore a bottle-green redingote, buttoned to the chin, and a stovepipe hat.

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You are expected, sir, in a stovepipe hat and a claw-hammer coat!

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