pot hat

noun

A low-crowned felt hat, worn by men.

Meanings

nounpot hat (plural pot hats)

plural pot hats

  1. historicalA low-crowned felt hat, worn by men.

    A short, stout, puffed-up little man in a high pot-hat and a buttoned-up frock-coat and a chest-protector beard was sitting up behind a stump[.]

    1936, Norman Lindsay, The Flyaway Highway, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 74
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Chicago

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