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shovel hats

shovel hats is the plural of shovel hat.

Meaning of shovel hat

Noun

shovel hat (plural shovel hats)

  1. (informal) A broad-brimmed style of hat, varying widely in detail, generally turned up at the sides and projecting in front like a shovel, formerly worn by some clergy.
    • At one period, our ministers, were distinguished and held in contempt for their Puritanism and Methodism; but now they excite risibility, by the use of the "fire shovel hat".1816, The NEW EVANGELICAL MAGAZINE AND Theological Review
  2. (colloquial, obsolete) During the period of the popularity of shovel hats as clerical hats: any ecclesiastic, particularly one in traditional garb.
    • I expected that the fire-shovel hats would get it in that Number; and they have got it, and laid on with a heavy hand!1822, William Cobbett, Cobbett's Weekly Political Register, August 10, p. 367

Questions about shovel hats

What is shovel hats the plural of?
Shovel hats is the plural of shovel hat.

Words near shovel hats in the dictionary

  1. shoved the queer
  2. shoved up
  3. shovegroat
  4. shovel
  5. shovel hat
  6. shovel hats
  7. shovel out
  8. shovel ready
  9. shovel test
  10. shovel tests
  11. shovel up

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