Definitions

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  • noun A collapsible top hat

Etymologies

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From the surname of its French inventor

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Examples

  • 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

  • Upon my word, she almost blew my gibus away from under my arm sometimes.

    Lippincott's Magazine Of Popular Literature And Science Old Series, Vol. 36—New Series, Vol. 10, July 1885 Various

  • His gibus slipped from his hand and rolled over the floor.

    The Child of Pleasure Gabriele D'Annunzio 1900

  • 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

  • The craziness of the gibus hats beats description.

    The Cathedral 1877

  • -- 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

  • 1848 THACKERAY Bk. Snobs xviii, With his gibus-hat and his little glazed pumps. a1854 E. FORBES Lit.

    Hammer Ser | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles 2009

  • 1848 THACKERAY Bk. Snobs xviii, With his gibus-hat and his little glazed pumps. a1854 E. FORBES Lit.

    SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles - Part 1156 2009

  • 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

  • ΙΝΟΕΧ HISTORICVS Euryclidas & Micyon, rhetores, confiliis iuis regunt Arhenicn - lcs, & i turpiter blandiunrtir rc - gibus.

    Historiarum quidquid superest; 1789

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