cap (also †hat) of maintenance, a cap or hat worn as a symbol of official dignity or high rank, or carried before a sovereign or a high dignitary on…

A hat or other headdress worn as a symbol of office or rank. With distinguishing word or phrase indicating the position or office. Also (now only)…

a wide-brimmed hat which is adorned with a scallop shell as a badge of pilgrimage.

A hat or cap resembling a porringer. Cf. quot. 1594 at sense 1. Obsolete.

Scottish. A kind of hood or peaked hat. Obsolete.

a type of hat, resembling a custard (sense 1a) in shape, of the kind worn by the sword-bearer of the City of London; (in extended use) a person who…

Usually with modifying word: any of various types of hat or headdress characteristic of a man in a particular profession or office.

(a) a box in which a muff is kept or sold (now rare); (b) a large hat worn by women at the beginning of the 19th cent. (now historical).

Applied in end of 17th cent. to a fashion of hat.

A type of hat. Obsolete.

(a) a ventilated cupboard for storing meat, usually made of wire gauze or perforated zinc; (sometimes) a wire gauze cover for meat; (b) (figurative)…

a woman's hat or bonnet with large flaps on the sides; = gypsy bonnet n.

A type of bonnet or bonnet-like hat with a brim framing the top and sides of the face, and resembling the hood of a cabriolet (sense 1a). More fully…

a woman's hat or bonnet with large flaps on the sides; = gypsy hat n.

Short for gypsy bonnet n. or gypsy hat n. at compounds 3. Obsolete.

attributive. Designating various items of clothing named after or popularized by the Duke of Wellington, as Wellington coat, Wellington hat, Wellingto…

attrib., as fan-tail-hat, also, simply, fan-tail, a coal-heaver's hat, a sou'wester; fan-tail gentleman, a wearer of such a hat, a coal-heaver.

a hat similar in size or shape to an umbrella.

British. A white hat affected by Radical supporters in the 19th cent. Cf. quot. 1841 at sense A. 7b. Obsolete. rare.

An Irish hat.

Originally: (in eastern India) the European hat; (now more generally) the sola topi, the sola hat or pith helmet. See sola, n.

The black cap worn by a bullfighter.

A style of hat, esp. one trimmed with Petersham ribbon. Now rare.

The verbal stem used in combinations, in the sense ‘having the appearance of being squashed’, as squash hat n. (cf. squashed, adj.) squash nose n.

A kind of hat shaped like a turban.

Thieves' slang. A hat of a form fashionable among ‘kiddies’.

one having flaps or a flapping brim.

A large hat, worn by women, with one side bent downwards, and abundantly trimmed with flowers.

(see quot.).

Any of various types of Maori head covering; (later more generally) a hat.

the tall plumed helmet of the Grenadier Guards.

A type of hat crown with a level top; a style of woman's hat having such a crown.

A man's hat; spec. a derby hat (cf. sense 2 above). slang (chiefly U.S.).

A type of hat with a pushed-back brim. Now rare.

a hat bearing the words ‘kiss me quick’ (or some other, usually jocular, phrase) on the front.

A type of flat, round, woollen hat, traditionally worn by men in the Panjshir valley of Afghanistan.

A hat made from tinfoil. With allusion to the belief that such a hat protects the wearer from mind control, surveillance, or similar types of threat.