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chimney-pot hats

chimney-pot hats is the plural of chimney-pot hat.

Meaning of chimney-pot hat

Noun

chimney-pot hat (plural chimney-pot hats)

  1. (informal) A type of cylindrical top hat traditionally worn as formal attire.
    • They have a peculiar style of dress which they wear among themselves, a close-fitting white shirt with black trousers, and a black frock or upper shirt. The women seem to prefer a dress entirely black. On festivals and state occasions they adopt the swallow-tail coat, chimney-pot hat, and their...1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume I, London: Macmillan and Co., page 471

Questions about chimney-pot hats

What is chimney-pot hats the plural of?
Chimney-pot hats is the plural of chimney-pot hat.

Words near chimney-pot hats in the dictionary

  1. chimney-glasses
  2. chimney-money
  3. chimney-piece
  4. chimney-pieces
  5. chimney-pot hat
  6. chimney-pot hats
  7. chimney-sweep
  8. chimney-sweeper
  9. chimney-sweepers
  10. chimney-sweeps
  11. chimneyboard

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