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Definition of Porkpie
1. Noun. Man's hat with a low, flat crown and a snap brim.
Definition of Porkpie
1. Noun. (alternative form of pork pie) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Porkpie
1. a man's hat [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Porkpie
Literary usage of Porkpie
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town by Cory Doctorow (2006)
"... with $200 in twenties and wrote his phone number on the brim of a little
porkpie hat that looked good on their head and turned them loose on the city. ..."
2. The English Illustrated Magazine (1904)
"... stiff black jerkin with silver buttons, wooden clogs, and hard round porkpie
hat : a grimly characteristic personality, and one not to be trifled with. ..."
3. The Dublin University Magazine: A Literary and Political Journal (1864)
"It is wonderful the ingenious variety of shape found for this simple article of
attire, from the familiar " porkpie" (if we must use that coarse and odious ..."
4. Fraser's Magazine (1870)
"In that case you put on your shooting jacket and pot hat— billycock or porkpie—take
your stick and your donkey, and so proceed to the presence. ..."
5. Paris Herself Again in 1878-9 by George Augustus Sala (1884)
"... hats of the 'porkpie ' fashion. The small Bayonne hams were in prime condition,
and as richly brown in hue as the back of a Stradivarius fiddle. ..."
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