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Definition of Flat-hat
1. Verb. Fly very close to the ground.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Flat-hat
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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