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Recent Examples of top hat
My dream is to be the Gary Oldman Dracula, with the gray suit, gray top hat and little purple glasses.
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Patrick Ryan, USA Today, 29 Oct. 2025
Filmed by the owner from inside a car, the video first shows a dark figure in the corner—a skeleton with a beard and top hat—facing the wall.
—Lucy Notarantonio, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Oct. 2025
This was a new guitar-wielding D’Angelo, in a bandana or a top hat, more Sly and George Clinton than seductive soul crooner.
—Marcus J. Moore, Pitchfork, 15 Oct. 2025
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
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Patrick Ryan, USA Today, 29 Oct. 2025
Filmed by the owner from inside a car, the video first shows a dark figure in the corner—a skeleton with a beard and top hat—facing the wall.
—Lucy Notarantonio, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Oct. 2025
This was a new guitar-wielding D’Angelo, in a bandana or a top hat, more Sly and George Clinton than seductive soul crooner.
—Marcus J. Moore, Pitchfork, 15 Oct. 2025
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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for top hat
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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Except Homer is wearing a backwards baseball cap, yelling about Minecraft, and asking his audience to smash the like button.—
Ryan Craig,
Forbes.com,
23 Jan. 2026
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Even with a baseball cap over her silky tresses, her beauty look was luckily still in plain view.—
Essence,
Essence,
23 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Artist and designer Cecil Beaton performed a coy fashion magazine pose in full drag, his slender form crowned by an enormous picture hat that transforms him into something approaching a human flower, photographed by the duo David James Scott and Edgar Wilkinson.—
Christopher Knight,
Los Angeles Times,
24 June 2025
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Okay, Emily is wearing a picture hat that makes her previous hat look tiny.—
Emma Specter,
Vogue,
2 May 2025
Noun
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Shaped like a teddy bear, the cup also has a green Starbucks stocking cap and a straw.—
Melina Khan,
USA Today,
7 Nov. 2025
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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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The mayor donned a hard hat and boarded a crane lift to check out the vinyl wrap being applied to the Janet Gray Hayes Rotunda on Thursday morning.—
Sal Pizarro,
Mercury News,
15 Jan. 2026
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With his dad’s old hard hat atop his head, and covered in cinema-grade grease, Beard read for the show.—
Brayden Garcia,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
16 Dec. 2025
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
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
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Another spot finds McConaughey alone at home at night, wearing a cowboy hat, playing with figurines modeled after himself and Cooper.—
Ana Gutierrez,
Austin American Statesman,
26 Jan. 2026
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Woody Harrelson took the stage shortly after to share his memories of Redford while wearing not a cowboy hat but a baseball hat with a cannabis leaf embroidered on it.—
Chris Gardner,
HollywoodReporter,
24 Jan. 2026
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“Top hat.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/top%20hat. Accessed 30 Jan. 2026.
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