Collapsible hat styled like a top hat.
1 His gibus slipped from his hand and rolled over the floor.
2 Upon my word, she almost blew my gibus away from under my arm sometimes.
3 The craziness of the gibus hats beats description.
4 He had gone out to dinner with a Gibus hat, and they took that.
5 He took a Gibus hat,-hisown, or that of some other unfortunate,-andslowly made his way down to the place in Bruton Street.
6 She apologises for the mess in her dressing room at the legendary Gibus club in Paris, now strewn with balloons and pink ribbons.
7 With a few steel springs Frenchman Antoine Gibus rectified this problem, inventing the collapsible top hat, called an opera or crush hat, or a gibus.
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