stovepipe hat

Related to stovepipe hat: top hat

stovepipe hat

A tall hat, traditionally made of silk. You will recognize Lord Edmund by his ever-present stovepipe hat.
See also: hat
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • pass the hat
  • pass the hat (around)
  • top hat
  • titfer
  • have a brick in (one's) hat
  • keep (something) under (one's) hat
  • keep something under your hat
  • keep under hat
  • keep under one's hat
  • (as) black as (one's) hat
References in periodicals archive
Ms Siencyn, from Talgarreg, Ceredigion, is a former deputy chief executive of Academi, and I can only presume she is as Welsh as Max Boyce, in a stovepipe hat, with a daffodil in one hand and a leek in the other, singing a rousing rendition of Sospan Fach.
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Out with the oompah band and in with a quartet of harpists, while the lederhosen and Alpine headgear would have to give way to an apron and stovepipe hat.
Our Urdd's no beer festival
He was a red-nosed drunk with a twisted stovepipe hat and soon was seen on everything from silver matchboxes to clothes and watches.
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Greer wore a black suit and stovepipe hat to the meeting, as he occasionally does when addressing the City Council on issues he believes are of national importance.
City Council silent on immigration appeal
A recommendation from The Bookseller is quoted on the back cover of The Printer's Devil whose front cover shows a Boy's Own scene of adventure, with a ragged-looking boy, a dog and a fleeing man in a stovepipe hat.
Devil of a job gives Paul his print break
What followed then was just plain scary, an old guy in what looked like a traditional Welsh stovepipe hat taking us through a folk tale about - and my Korean is not that good, so I was relying on Davies again - a girl who threw herself in the sea to ensure something was delivered.
Mountain man turns in peak performance
At stroke of Midnight, pale Francesco lifts his tall stovepipe hat (bright diagrams of the starry galaxies inscribed
The origin of stars
Museum of Liverpool, Pier Head, until April 22 THEATRE A Christmas Carol Put on your best Victorian bib-and-tucker and hold on to your stovepipe hat as the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future whisk us on a brilliantly funny flight of theatrical fancy.
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Sporting the famous stovepipe hat, he led the Illinois delegation onto the convention floor.
A visit from Honest Abe
8PM From iconic stovepipe hat to shoulders stooped by a nation divided, Daniel Day-Lewis (below) is every inch the Great Emancipator.
TUESDAY
The Cat in the Hat Sky Movies Comedy, today, 8.05am & 2.45pm Two bored youngsters are led on a series of zany misadventures when a manic moggy comes knocking at their door with a magical stovepipe hat on his head and mischief in mind.
Family films
"Where the photographer would have a stovepipe hat and a wood and brass camera, and he'd get under his cloth to take the picture.
Another decade, another land; A new exhibition captures the feel of the Black Country in the 1970s perfectly, says Lorne Jackson
JUNE NEW Shadow Welsh Secretary Cheryl Gillan attempts to appeal to what she calls "the natives" by making her first appearance at the Senedd wearing a stovepipe hat, clasping a leek in one hand and a daffodil in the other and singing a roaring rendition of Sospan Fach.
HAPPY NEW SEER!
Many wore their own versions of the cat's iconic red-and-white striped stovepipe hat. Rosie Early was deep into "The Courageous Princess." She said she loves to read.
Still a cool cat; Read Across America has become a daily event
One delegate fashioned an Arab headdress to complement his letterman's jacket, cargo shorts and tennis shoes, while another representative opted for the Honest Abe look with a large stovepipe hat.
Students tackle issues at mock U.N