Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A man's felt hat having a soft dented crown and a shallow, slightly rolled brim.
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- noun A type of men's felt
fedora ; a stiff felthat similar to atrilby .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Hollidaysburg, Pa., died Mar. 27 in Homburg, Germany, of a non-combat related illness.
KIA KIA/BNR 2007
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Spc. Joshua M. Neusche, 20, of Montreal, Mo., died July 12 in Homburg
Gulf War II 2003
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• Army Sgt. Curtis J. Forshey, 22, Hollidaysburg, Pa.; died in Homburg, Germany, of a non-combat related illness; assigned to the 129th Combat Sustainment Support Battalion, 101st Sustainment Brigade, 101st Airborne Division, Fort Campbell, Ky.
March 2007 2007
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The widowed Empress Frederick is either at her lovely castle of Kronberg, near Homburg, which is stocked from garret to cellar with those art treasures of which she is one of the finest connaisseuses in Europe, or else is traveling about in Italy,
The Secret Memoirs of the Courts of Europe Fontenoy, Mme La Marquise De 1900
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CMQ.UN-T, formerly known as Homburg Canada REIT, at about $838.2-million, including the stake Cominar already owns.
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed Ross Marowits 2011
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His attire consisted of much worn brown trousers and a loose white shirt kept in place by a red belt, -- his shirt sleeves were rolled up to the elbow, displaying thin brown muscular arms, expressive of energy, and he wore a battered brown hat which might once have been of the so-called "Homburg" shape, but which now resembled nothing ever seen in the way of ordinary head-gear.
Innocent : her fancy and his fact Marie Corelli 1889
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"Homburg" is much more grandiose than the stripped down original.
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( "Homburg" or the "Company") (TSX: HII. A & HII. B and
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( "Homburg" or the "Company") (TSX: HII. A & HII. B and
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The exhibition—organized by Philadelphia Museum curators Joseph J. Rishel and Jennifer A. Thompson, in collaboration with Anabelle Kienle, a curator at the National Gallery of Canada, and Cornelia Homburg, a Van Gogh scholar—opens with two small rooms of still lifes, most of them luscious pictures, although many have little to do with the theme of the show.
A Matter of Perspective Jonathan Lopez 2012
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