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- noun A
collapsible top hat
Etymologies
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Examples
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Ask little Tom Prig, who is there in all his glory, knows everybody, has a story about every one; and, as he trips home to his lodgings in Jermyn Street, with his gibus-hat and his little glazed pumps, thinks he is the fashionablest young fellow in town, and that he really has passed a night of exquisite enjoyment.
The Book of Snobs 2006
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Upon my word, she almost blew my gibus away from under my arm sometimes.
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His gibus slipped from his hand and rolled over the floor.
The Child of Pleasure Gabriele D'Annunzio 1900
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Ispenlove stood leaning against the piano, as though intensely fatigued; he crushed his gibus with an almost savage movement, and then bent his large, lustrous black eyes absently on the flat top of it.
Sacred and Profane Love Arnold Bennett 1899
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The craziness of the gibus hats beats description.
The Cathedral 1877
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-- Ask little Tom Prig, who is there in all his glory, knows everybody, has a story about every one; and, as he trips home to his lodgings in Jermyn Street, with his gibus-hat and his little glazed pumps, thinks he is the fashionablest young fellow in town, and that he really has passed a night of exquisite enjoyment.
The Book of Snobs William Makepeace Thackeray 1837
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1848 THACKERAY Bk. Snobs xviii, With his gibus-hat and his little glazed pumps. a1854 E. FORBES Lit.
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1848 THACKERAY Bk. Snobs xviii, With his gibus-hat and his little glazed pumps. a1854 E. FORBES Lit.
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Hifpidos agrcs vel fpicis ac fru - gibus maturis hlfpidos A hirfutot; vel poQus kyemis afpertate horridos ac deformes.
Quinti Horatii Flacci Opera Horace, Ludovicus Desprez, André Dacier 1793
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ΙΝΟΕΧ HISTORICVS Euryclidas & Micyon, rhetores, confiliis iuis regunt Arhenicn - lcs, & i turpiter blandiunrtir rc - gibus.
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