chapeau
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Fitting, given that anything more than one foot in front of her would be invisible beneath the shadow of her cockamamie chapeau.
From Salon ● Jan. 21, 2025
"For the women collectively changing the future for this sport, I say chapeau to them," she said.
From BBC ● Mar. 10, 2024
He had a mechanical as well, still put 40 seconds into me so chapeau to him.
From Washington Times ● May 27, 2023
The stolen chapeau — a tall beaver-skin top hat — was so distinctive, it proved impossible to sell.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 4, 2023
Lady Constance tipped her head from one side to the other in front of her dressing-room mirror, the better to admire the elaborate chapeau that she had just placed upon her upswept curls.
From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood
County deputies over the past 150-plus years — octagon-shaped uniform caps, broad-brimmed chapeaus like the one Canadian Mounties use, helmets, and more — there is no mention whatsoever of Stetsons.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2021
Watkins herself counts 75 Beane originals among her more than 150 chapeaus.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 27, 2019
People have used them for food, currency and hat-making material—the human desire for warm and stylish chapeaus almost wiped beavers out.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 20, 2018
These chapeaus are the fancy plumed caps we see in our “Then” photo, heading east up Yesler Way from Second Avenue.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 16, 2018
I did, or rather stood by and let 'my son' do it in the best of French, only whispering when he proposed gorgeous chapeaus full of flowers and feathers, that I could not afford it.
From Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag by Louisa May Alcott
What struck me most about the show — aside, naturally, from the marvelous, mammoth chapeaux that are its signature image — was how fresh and funny it felt.
From New York Times ● Jan. 1, 2016
These festive chapeaux should be 3 feet in diameter so you can invite friends and family to partake in your shade.
From Slate ● Aug. 5, 2014
Carla Bruni is a woman who wears many chapeaux: she’s been everything from a model to, as the wife of President Nicolas Sarkozy, the “First Lady” of France.
From Time ● Apr. 8, 2013
CI: That hat — she’s trying to upstage all those wedding chapeaux.
From New York Times ● Jun. 13, 2011
This latter consisted for the most part, of the chapeaux, swords, belts, gauntlets, baldrics, aprons, etc., usually worn by the Sir Knights when on parade and other duty.
From The Story of the Great Fire in St. John, N.B., June 20th, 1877 by George Stewart
