dress hat

Questions about dress hat

What does dress hat mean?

dress hat means "a man's hat with a tall crown; usually covered with silk or with beaver fur".

What is another word for dress hat?

Close synonyms include high hat, opera hat, silk hat, stovepipe, top hat. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is dress hat a common word?

dress hat is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.