10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SHOVEL HAT»
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The Carlyle Encyclopedia
SHOVELHATTERY The Oxford English Dictionary defines the "shovel hat" as "a
stiff broad-brimmed hat, turned up at the sides and projecting with a shovel-like
curve in front and behind, worn by some ecclesiastics." As one of its citations for ...
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Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: Rea
1833-4. Carlvle, Sartor Resartus, lii. 6. Whereas the English Jonsononly howed
to every clergyman, or man with a shovel-hat, 1 would how to any man with any
sort of hat, or with no hat what. ever. 1843. Thackekav, Cornhill to Cairo, 11.
John Stephen Farmer, William Ernest Henley, 1903
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Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: A Dictionary ... ...
Looming large in full canonicals, walking as became a beneficed priest, under
the canopy of a shovel hat. 1853. Lytton, My Novel, xL a. The profession of this
gentleman's companion was unmistakeable— the shovel- hat, the clerical cut of
the ...
John Stephen Farmer, Henley, 1903
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The imperial encyclopaedic dictionary: a new and exhaustive ...
showery. shovel-hat, $. A hat with a broad brim turned tip at the sides and
projecting in front,like a shovel, worn by dignitaries of the Church of England.
shovel-head, t. [Shovel-fish.] shovel-nose, *. ZoOlogy : 1. A name given the sand
shark. 2.
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Allusions in Ulysses: An Annotated List
... holy (see next entry), probably refers to Berkeley's going beyond Locke in
saying that not only secondary qualities, but reality itself is mental. Stephen's
statement about the veil and the shovel hat means that Berkeley found reality
inside ...
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The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the ...
A shovel-hat. [Colloq.] A queer old hat, something like a doctor of divinity's sAowI.
T. Hughes, Tom Brown at Bugby, L 2. 3. In coiil., a formation suggesting a shovel.
See cuts under paddle-iish and shoveler^. — 4. See the quotation. [Slang.] ...
William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, 1914
'Tis a shame that so fine an island should be the only one that has not a single
shovel-hat upon it, and Parson Jem they will have. So they pare off another fifty
acres for a Rectory glebe, and 'tis reed that over and above the monies paid at ...
NEXT day about noon I was sitting over my books in front of one of the parlour
windows, when I saw, moving beyond the more distant garden trees, in the
direction of the south gate, an ancient black shovel hat, which I knew must
betoken the ...
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine
He of the shovel-hat, again, who comes forward professing that he will save my
soul. 0 ye eternities, of him in this place be absolute silence! But he of the red
cont, I say, is a success and no failure! He will veritably, if he gets orders, draw
out a ...
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The New monthly magazine and universal register. [Continued ...
Nobody expects the same rigid propriety of exterior in a soldier that is looked for
in a parson ; and the affectation of especial sanctity or parade would become a
general as ill as a shovel-hat. A placeman may indulge in many innocent ...
