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Recent Examples of porkpie hat
Frank Lloyd Wright is known for a lot of things, among them organic architecture, porkpie hats and philandering.
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The New York Times News Service Syndicate, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 July 2025
Top that off with Oppenheimer’s signature wide-brim porkpie hat (which was surprisingly difficult for the costume designer to source), and the look felt timeless, says Mirojnick.
—Beatrice Verhoeven, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Feb. 2024
Lopez, a slight, courtly sixty-one-year-old who wears a porkpie hat and walks with a cane, relayed his story to Minogue.
—Jennifer Egan, The New Yorker, 11 Sep. 2023
So, go, get into the spirit and put on some pink or don an exaggerated porkpie hat.
—Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times, 28 July 2023
Perhaps the most important sequence shot at Ghost Ranch was the moment in which Murphy puts on Oppenheimer’s distinctive porkpie hat for the first time, an action symbolic of the physicist truly coming into his own as the leader of this massive effort.
—Jada Yuan, Washington Post, 19 July 2023
The New York Times News Service Syndicate, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 July 2025
Top that off with Oppenheimer’s signature wide-brim porkpie hat (which was surprisingly difficult for the costume designer to source), and the look felt timeless, says Mirojnick.
—Beatrice Verhoeven, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Feb. 2024
Lopez, a slight, courtly sixty-one-year-old who wears a porkpie hat and walks with a cane, relayed his story to Minogue.
—Jennifer Egan, The New Yorker, 11 Sep. 2023
So, go, get into the spirit and put on some pink or don an exaggerated porkpie hat.
—Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times, 28 July 2023
Perhaps the most important sequence shot at Ghost Ranch was the moment in which Murphy puts on Oppenheimer’s distinctive porkpie hat for the first time, an action symbolic of the physicist truly coming into his own as the leader of this massive effort.
—Jada Yuan, Washington Post, 19 July 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for porkpie hat
Noun
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His reflective blue shades were perched atop a baseball cap, obscuring much of his face.—
Anna Kaufman,
USA Today,
6 Oct. 2025
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Mellencamp, 44, sported a loose-fitting jumpsuit, Prada crossbody bag and a black baseball cap, while Rea, who was holding a tablet in his hand, dressed down in athletic shorts and a white T-shirt.—
Liza Esquibias,
PEOPLE,
6 Oct. 2025
Noun
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One of the most popular traditional costumes was the bauta, which consisted of a full mask, a cape that covered the head and shoulders, and a tricorn or cocked hat.—
Elizabeth Djinis,
Smithsonian Magazine,
12 Feb. 2024
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Heather Wilson, a nurse anesthetist, wore huge fake eyelashes and an absurd cocked hat.—
William Finnegan,
The New Yorker,
15 May 2021
Noun
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McGraw isn't the only one tipping his cowboy hat to his enduring love with Hill.—
Edward Segarra,
USA Today,
6 Oct. 2025
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And of all the things worth being made in America, a cowboy hat should stand around the top of that list—and hopefully will for another 160 years.—
Eric Twardzik,
Robb Report,
3 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Clockwise from top: A 1957 Balenciaga hat, Deirdre Hawken’s Cauliflower Headpiece from 2013, a layered silk hat from the 1940s, and a 1942 Germaine Vittu hat.—
Nathan Heller,
Vogue,
17 Apr. 2024
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Yet, Halston does clock something of use from the experience: a young woman in the audience who, among the sweater sets, is wearing a colorful silk hat.—
Whitney Friedlander,
Vulture,
14 May 2021
Noun
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Zweig ended up donating a vast collection to us, including that John Lennon piano, Jimi Hendrix’s Marshall amplifier and one of his effects pedals, and some wardrobe from Madonna, and the top hat worn by Elton John on the cover of his album A Single Man, among others.—
Andy Greene,
Rolling Stone,
28 Sep. 2025
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Jessa Barniol, 38, a graphic designer and history buff who works as a tour guide at the Sacramento History Museum in Old Sacramento, had a faux dragon perched on her shoulder like a parrot and wore a top hat festooned with a pair of goggles.—
Sharon Bernstein,
Sacbee.com,
28 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Both of them wore their stocking caps pulled down beneath the hoods of their anoraks.—
Ann Patchett,
New Yorker,
29 Sep. 2025
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When Mitchell broke into the house, she was dressed in all black, with a black stocking cap, and carried items such as a covered flashlight and a prybar.—
Ingrid Harbo,
Twin Cities,
24 Sep. 2025
Noun
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On the wall beside the door is a photo of Lambert in uniform, his Army garrison cap cocked at a rakish angle, a thin mustache on his upper lip.—
Washington Post,
Washington Post,
12 June 2019
Noun
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Instead of high hats, use wall washers, which bounce light off the walls and space.—
Adam Shell,
USA TODAY,
17 Mar. 2025
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Going high hat just did not fit, and on Sept. 9, 1927, the Bernheimer flags came down.—
Jacques Kelly,
Baltimore Sun,
4 June 2022
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“Porkpie hat.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/porkpie%20hat. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.
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