top-hatted
See also: tophatted
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edittop-hatted (not comparable)
- Wearing a top hat.
- 1960 June, M.G.D. Farr, “Railbus services in the Western Region”, in Trains Illustrated, page 366:
- Half-an-hour later the whistle blew to summon the passengers back to the train, and they then moved on to Tetbury, where a procession was formed and slow-marched into the centre of the town, led by two top-hatted "mourners".
- 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 38:
- While walking in the off-peak over the small wood-panelled footbridge [at Baker Street station] that connects the two original platforms - which itself resembles an old-fashioned railway carriage hoisted above the tracks - I would not be surprised to see a top-hatted man approaching me.