10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BELL-TOPPER»
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1
Fashioned from Penury: Dress as Cultural Practice in ...
The casual garments of the country had been equally miraculously transformed: '
Respectable men had mustered up moral courage to wear frock-coats, and
merchants ventured to the Chamber of Commerce in the regular British "bell-
topper", ...
2
A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant
C.G. Leland. Beil—Bqu-lopper. Bell-topper—Bdmkiere. 104 Bell (tramps), a song.
B ell erin (American), talking loudly, crying aloud. Turn up among de mountains
All in de weeds of canes; A nigger came a duller-is An' rnshin' throodc wanes.
3
Plein Airs and Graces: The Life and Times of George Collingridge
That Duke of Buckingham, as a rule, used to dress in a most disreputable way,
but, one evening, dressed up in good style, his head crowned with a fine bell-
topper that had just come into fashion, he walked into a grocer's shop and, to the
...
4
Gold Seeking: Victoria and California in the 1850s
... University Press, 1980), p. 107. Redmond Barry fought a duel during the 1840s
; he arrived in a bell-topper hat, 'strap- trousered, swallow-tail-coated, white-
vested, gloved, and cravatted to a nicety', but in the event merely fired into the air,
...
5
Austral English: A Dictionary of Australasian Words, Phrases ...
2: “Can it be that the pernicious influence of the House is gradually tingeing the
high priests of the bellbottomed ballottee with conservatisml” Bell-Frog', Golden,
11. See G0/den Bell-Frog. Bell-topper, 1:. The ordinary Australian name for the
tall ...
Edward Ellis Morris, 2011
6
Life in Victoria: Or, Victoria in 1853, and Victoria in ...
... money they were in treaty for with a London Jew." * Bell-topper was the
derisive name given by diggers to old style hat, supposed to indicate the dandy
swell. A VISIT TO THE PEOFESSOB. 269 I remarked that there 263 LIFE IN
VICTOEIA.
waited on me to-day, and that deputation was absolutely driven to admit that the
hat upon which a duty of 47i per cent, was charged was the black silk hat, which
is known as the " bell-topper." According to the press, and certain luxurious free ...
Victoria. Parliament, 1867
8
Sporting Magazine: Or, Monthly Calendar of the Transactions ...
Buchannon's Cora beat Mr. Hodgson's Othello ; Mr. Par. tridge's Caro beat Mr.
Knublev's Smoker; Mr. Johnson's Brush beat Mr. Alliion's Cilo ; Mr. Pattinson's Fly
beat Mr. Fell's Duke ; Mr. Benn's Lofty beat Mr. Bell's Topper; Mr. C. Cannalt's
Dart ...
9
The Voyage of the Shuckenoor
He cleared his throat. 'The crew would hold a book in hand and sing hymns while
I was rowed ashore, wearing a white mackintosh, and a bell-topper, and holding
an umbrella.' Her cloth circled his mouth as he talked, wiping his cheeks, chin, ...
10
The Lingo: Listening to Australian English
I had a fine suit and a bell- topper on. When I crept out on the other side I was in
shreds, and frightened the police would arrest me for indecent exposure. Then I
could not walk. That wooden leg had crushed my bread basket so. So I laid down
...
NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «BELL-TOPPER»
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Glen Alpine, the Horbury Hunt designed mansion, listed
His hat, a bell-topper came with ventilation built in and a compartment for drawing paper. His bicycle was fitted with a fold-away drawing board ... «Property Observer, Mar 14»
