porkpie hat

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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. 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
  • Investigators also found a baseball cap, red sweater, cargo shorts and a sock nearby but no documentation identifying the victim.
    David Chiu, PEOPLE, 27 Oct. 2025
  • Unlike his predecessor, Nick Nurse, Rajaković doesn’t generally wear a baseball cap.
    Eric Koreen, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • Heather Wilson, a nurse anesthetist, wore huge fake eyelashes and an absurd cocked hat.
    William Finnegan, The New Yorker, 15 May 2021
Noun
  • Wilson was pictured standing next to the field and wearing a white cowboy hat and an LAFC jersey, smiling and cheering during the second half of the game.
    Hannah Sacks, PEOPLE, 30 Oct. 2025
  • The show wrapped up with Tonioli stripping down to a shiny gold tank top and cowboy hat.
    Lynette Rice, Deadline, 28 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
  • My dream is to be the Gary Oldman Dracula, with the gray suit, gray top hat and little purple glasses.
    Patrick Ryan, USA Today, 29 Oct. 2025
  • In an era of 51st-state tensions, there’s something psychically fitting about Canada, America’s top hat, being used to reenact so many of America’s sins.
    Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 23 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Both of them wore their stocking caps pulled down beneath the hoods of their anoraks.
    Ann Patchett, New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2025
  • 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
  • Mandatory class attire includes gray pants, a black pelt, gray button-up shirt and a garrison cap.
    Christopher Kamrani, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025
  • 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
  • Instead of high hats, use wall washers, which bounce light off the walls and space.
    Adam Shell, USA TODAY, 17 Mar. 2025
  • 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 5 Nov. 2025.

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