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Chapeau   Listen
noun
Chapeau  n.  (pl. chapeux)  
1.
A hat or covering for the head.
2.
(Her.) A cap of maintenance. See Maintenance.
Chapeau bras, a hat so made that it can be compressed and carried under the arm without injury. Such hats were particularly worn on dress occasions by gentlemen in the 18th century. A chapeau bras is now worn in the United States army by general and staff officers.






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"Chapeau" Quotes from Famous Books



... spirituelle repartie: 'C'est la seconde fois que je viens en France sous la Republique. La premiere fois, c'etait en 1848, elle s'etait coiffee de travers: je suis bien heureux de saluer aujourd'hui votre excellence, quand elle a mis son chapeau droit.' Une fois je le menai voir couronner la Rosiere de Nanterre. Il y suivit les ceremonies civiles et religieuses; il y assista au banquet donne par le Maire; il y vit notre de Lesseps, auquel il porta un toast. Le soir, nous revinmes tard a Paris; il faisait chaud; ...
— Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin • Robert Louis Stevenson

... in front a white false—face or mask, of a most methodistical expression, while, Janus like, there was another face behind, of the most quizzical description, a sort of living Antithesis, both being garnished and overtopped with one coarse wig, made of the hair of bullocks tails, on which the chapeau was strapped down with a broad band of gold lace. He skipped up to us with a white wand in one hand and a dirty handkerchief in the other, and with sundry moppings and mowings, first wiping my shoes with his mouchoir, then my face, (murder, what a flavour of salt fish and onions it ...
— Tom Cringle's Log • Michael Scott

... Pitt's powerful rival, Charles James Fox, in his early manhood, was one of the most fashionable men in London. Here are a few particulars of his "get up" about 1770, drawn from the Monthly Magazine: "He had his chapeau-bas, his red-heeled shoes, and his blue hair-powder." Later, when Pitt's tax was gathered, like other Whigs, he refused to use hair-powder. For more than a quarter of a century it had been customary for men to wear their hair long, tied in a pig-tail and powdered. Pitt's measure ...
— At the Sign of the Barber's Pole - Studies In Hirsute History • William Andrews

... Hampshire, and Connecticut, amounting to rather more than four thousand men, assembled at Canseau about the middle of April; soon after which, to the great joy of the colonial troops, admiral Warren arrived, with a considerable part of his fleet. The army then embarked for Chapeau-rouge bay, and the fleet ...
— The Life of George Washington, Vol. 1 (of 5) • John Marshall

... of an East Side second-hand clothes dealer—having a long beard, a long, worn and dirty coat reaching just to his ankles, and a small derby hat on his head. The very first night his immediate neighbour complained that "Le Chapeau" (as he was christened by The Zulu) was guilty of fleas. A great tempest ensued immediately. A planton was hastily summoned. He arrived, heard the case, inspected The Hat (who lay on his paillasse with his derby on, his hand ...
— The Enormous Room • Edward Estlin Cummings

... represented the author as in the act of composition, yet has effectually discharged all affectation from the manner and attitude. He seems pleased with it himself. He dined with us at Peel's yesterday, where, by the way, we saw the celebrated Chapeau de Paille, which is not a ...
— The Journal of Sir Walter Scott - From the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford • Walter Scott



Words linked to "Chapeau" :   derby, Panama, fool's cap, sombrero, sun hat, poke bonnet, headgear, tirolean, homburg, high hat, bonnet, Panama hat, dunce cap, dress hat, Stetson, brim, silk hat, busby, trilby, campaign hat, sunhat, derby hat, crown, hatband, plug hat, sailor, tyrolean, leghorn, shovel hat, opera hat, straw hat, bearskin, bowler, shako, boater, beaver, titfer, hat, felt hat, ten-gallon hat, woman's hat, slouch hat, stovepipe, cowboy hat, fur hat



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