deerstalker
Example Sentences
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Woolens became such a status symbol that Arthur Conan Doyle clad his fictional sleuth Sherlock Holmes in a tweed deerstalker hat in 1893.
From National Geographic ● Jan. 14, 2021
He often depicted Mrs. Sharmat’s hero clad in a trench coat and deerstalker, a look of concentration on his face, his trusty dog Sludge by his side.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 20, 2019
Many wear Victorian dress, including Holmes’s preferred deerstalker cap and Inverness cape.
From New York Times ● Jan. 14, 2018
Laurence, 23, from Paris is wearing a deerstalker and is a member of the Sherlock Holmes Society in France.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 17, 2016
In the original Sherlock Holmes stories Sherlock Holmes is never described as wearing a deerstalker hat, which is what he is always wearing in pictures and cartoons.
From "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" by Mark Haddon
