: a low soft felt hat with the crown creased lengthwise
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Customers can also purchase winter clothing for children like jackets and beanies, fall hats, fedoras and blankets.
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Carlos Rico, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Nov. 2025
Additionally, Indiana Jones‘ fedora that Harrison Ford wore as the adventure-seeking archeologist in 1984 sequel Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom is likely to sell for upwards of $400,000.
—Ryan Gajewski, HollywoodReporter, 5 Nov. 2025
The man at the far right, holding a fedora over his heart, is widely believed to be Joe Profaci.
—Susan Mulcahy, New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2025
The place is the Savin Bar + Kitchen, in Boston's Dorchester neighborhood, where immediately inside the front door, patrons are greeted by a larger-than-life framed mugshot of Bulger — the mob-boss, murderer, bank robber, drug dealer and extortionist — peering cooly out from under his fedora.
—Tovia Smith, NPR, 24 Oct. 2025
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Carlos Rico, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Nov. 2025
Additionally, Indiana Jones‘ fedora that Harrison Ford wore as the adventure-seeking archeologist in 1984 sequel Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom is likely to sell for upwards of $400,000.
—Ryan Gajewski, HollywoodReporter, 5 Nov. 2025
The man at the far right, holding a fedora over his heart, is widely believed to be Joe Profaci.
—Susan Mulcahy, New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2025
The place is the Savin Bar + Kitchen, in Boston's Dorchester neighborhood, where immediately inside the front door, patrons are greeted by a larger-than-life framed mugshot of Bulger — the mob-boss, murderer, bank robber, drug dealer and extortionist — peering cooly out from under his fedora.
—Tovia Smith, NPR, 24 Oct. 2025
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“Fedora.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fedora. Accessed 10 Dec. 2025.
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fedora
noun
fe·do·ra
fi-ˈdōr-ə 
-ˈdȯr-
: a low soft felt hat with the crown creased lengthwise
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