top-hatless
adjEtymology From top hat + -less.
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Rare Without a top hat.
- So little had the scene at the Courthouse been prearranged, that I had left my Ulster overcoat at the hotel, and was wearing a top hat which alone must have discovered me out of a wholly top-hatless community.1920, William O’Brien, “An Appeal to Cæsar (1889)”, in Evening Memories, Dublin; London: Maunsel and Co., →OCLC, page 363:
- No, at this present crisis in Tokyo, I should have found myself top-hatless just the same, with the added bitterness of feeling that the stars in their courses had fought against me.1930 March 29, Arnold J[oseph] Toynbee, “Top-Hats and Chrysanthemums”, in The Nation and Athenæum, volume XLVI, number 26, London, →OCLC, page 891, column 1:
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- All the more shocking is Layton’s hairdo from years back, a wild mass of frizz atop his disturbingly top-hatless head.2012 September, Phil Theobald, “How to Become a Gentleman”, in Chris Slate, editor, Nintendo Power, number 282, San Francisco, Calif.: Future US, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 67, column 1: