Definition of Flat-hat

1. Verb. Fly very close to the ground.

Exact synonyms: Hedgehop
Generic synonyms: Aviate, Fly, Pilot

Lexicographical Neighbors of Flat-hat

flaskfuls
flasking
flaskless
flasklike
flasks
flat
flat-bellied
flat-bottom
flat-bottomed
flat-chested
flat-chestedness
flat-coated retriever
flat-earther
flat-earthers
flat-footed
flat-hat (current term)
flat-headed cat
flat-headed cats
flat-leaf parsley
flat-out
flat-rate
flat-top
flat-topped
flat-topped white aster
flat affect
flat arch
flat as a pancake
flat back four
flat bench
flat bone

Literary usage of Flat-hat

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Book for a Rainy Day: Or, Recollections of the Events of the Years 1766-1833 by John Thomas Smith (1861)
"The ladies this year wore half a flat hat as an eye-shade. 1769. Lord North, in a letter addressed to Sir Eardley Wilmot from Downing Street, hearing date ..."

2. The Quaker: A Study in Costume by Amelia Mott Gummere (1901)
"But the history of the flat hat is of great interest. ... of Burlington, NJ; 18th Century Flat Hat. Quakeress under her broad hat a century ago. ..."

3. A book for a rainy day: or, Recollections of the events of the last sixty by John Thomas Smith (1861)
"The ladies this year wore half a flat hat as an eye-shade. 1769. Lord North, in a letter addressed to Sir Eardley Wilmot from Downing Street, bearing date ..."

4. Social New York Under the Georges, 1714-1776: Houses, Streets, and Country by Esther Singleton (1902)
"About this time, the flat hat was particularly admired. A contemporary remarks that it " affords the ladies that arch roguish air which the winged hat gives ..."

5. Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour by Robert Smith Surtees (1903)
"exclaimed one of the Flat Hat men. " Then it's Charley Slapp; ... or Flat Hat snobs. It was our old friend Sponge; Monsieur Tonson again! ..."

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