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bell-topper - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

English

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Etymology

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From bell, referring to its shape + topper (top hat).

Noun

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bell-topper (plural bell-toppers)

  1. (chiefly Australia, dated) top hat; chimney-pot hat
    • 1903, William Craig (of Invercargill, N.Z.), My Adventures on the Australian Goldfields (page 11)
      “Now, you long ghost with the bell-topper, what did you pay for that coat? It's a Houndsditcher!” The sally was greeted with laughter from all who heard it.
    • 1918, Norman Lindsay, The Magic Pudding, page 132:
      There was a surprise awaiting them at Tooraloo, for the moment they arrived two persons in bell-toppers and long-tailed coats ran out from behind a fence[.]








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