trilby
IPA: trˈɪɫbi
noun
- A narrow-brimmed felt hat.
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Examples of "trilby" in Sentences
- Racegoers in trilby's, murderers with torsos in cabin trunks.
- "Most popular is our short-brimmed trilby, which is a young fashion take on a regular trilby."
- Men: Ms. Farr urges: "No big cargo shorts and logo tees or straw pork pies or trilby hats," a shorter-brimmed fedora.
- Joe worked on the railways as a goods guard, was incurably cheerful, always wore a trilby, taught himself French and Esperanto, and was a communist.
- How fitting, then, that as I walked under the railway bridge, a man with a narrow beard wearing a trilby hat walked past me in the opposite direction.
- Note how Indy's has a wider brim, unlike the one on the left The one on the left is more like a trilby, which is essentially a fedora with a narrower brim.
- On my first visit to Manila alter the American occupation I was struck to see Chinese in the streets wearing the pigtail down their backs, and dressed in nicely-cut semi-European patrol-jacket costumes of cloth or washing-stuffs, with straw or felt "trilby" hats.
- Glummer still was the plight of tiny homosexual Ben Mitchell, whose response to being caught kissing hooded squeeze Duncan was to festoon the Square with swirling wreaths of misspelled accusations "BIGGOT" and make Patrick's trilby spin with threats of the "watch it, mister!" genus.
- To consummate the baptism of his great protagonist in the trilby hat, Raymond Chandler decided on the fancy of combining the Christian name of the highest-scoring schoolboy batsman of the winning house in the previous summer's Dulwich cricket – and so it came to pass that the batsman was "Philip" and the house was "Marlowe", and thus was leafy south London in a blink translated into the mean streets of America.
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