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Homburg|ˈhɒmbɜːg|
[Name of a town near Wiesbaden, Germany.]
In full Homburg hat. A soft felt hat with a curled brim and a dented crown, first worn at Homburg, once a fashionable health-resort.
1894Country Gentlemen's Catal. 155/1 ‘The Homburg Hat’, as worn by H. R. H. Prince of Wales—10/6. 1901Sketch 4 Sept. 254/1 The quiet gentleman in dark clothes and a Homburg hat. 1904To-Day 29 June 256/1 At one time any man who wore a ‘Homburg’ was popularly supposed to be either an actor or an artist. 1922E. Wallace Valley of Ghosts xv. 142 He..put his Homburg hat on the table. 1940,1958[see Anthony Eden]. 1972Wodehouse Pearls, Girls & Monty Bodkin v. 68 Characters..who kept getting locked up in cellars under the river by sinister men in Homburg hats and raincoats. |