Definition of chapeau
: hat sense 1
Vaughn has even brought in a French chapeau to participate in Funny Hat Day …— Jack McCallum Her most offbeat chapeau is a bouquet of silk roses turned upside down. — Elle … the fine-looking, bearded officer, who had so courteously doffed his chapeau to our Captain …— Herman Melville The chapeau has, after years of promising to do so, actually slid back into fashion's vernacular … — Elle
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The first known use of chapeau was in 1523
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