bowler
nounEtymology From the name of the hatmakers Thomas and William Bowler, associated with early production.
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A bowler hat; a round black hat formerly popular among British businessmen.
- “One marble hall, with staircase complete, one butler and three flunkeys to receive a retired sojer who dares to ring the bell. D'you know, old boy, I gave my bowler to the butler, whangee to one flunkey, gloves to another, and there was the fourth poor blighter looking like an orphan at a Mothers' Meeting. …"1929, Baldwyn Dyke Acland, chapter 2, in Filibuster:
- Derived terms
- bowlered