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Meanings of cylinder hat in English

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Man's silk hat with high cylindrical crown.

        Usage of cylinder hat in English
        1
        He had on an old cylinder hat which had evidently seen good service, and yet became him remarkably.
        Cambridge Sketches
        2
        I enjoyed it a good deal, and assisted in so far as to pelt all the people in cylinder hats with handfuls of confetti.
        Passages from the French and Italian Notebooks, Volume 2.
        3
        I could now understand the advertisements of "secondhand cylinder hats for sale," which I had noticed, the day before, in the newspapers of the Canton.
        The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 118, August, 1867 / A Magaz...