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Meanings of pith helmet in English
Lightweight cloth-covered helmet.
Synonyms
Examples for "topee"
Examples for "topee"
1
He smiled and put his topee back on his thick dark hair.
2
On his head, whether indoors or out, he wore a dirty white topee.
3
She had large feet, encased in flat black shoes, and wore an enormous topee.
4
There was danger under the shadow of the topee.
5
By Jove, it is a topee... how the deuce an' all did it get there?
1
There lay only the topi, torn from the pillar by the wind.
2
The topi's nearest relations are the sasseby, the tiang, and the korrigum.
3
Yesterday I saw a horseman approaching in European riding kit and a topi.
4
Selim has a bright-yellow happy face and sports a skull-fitting topi.
5
We had proceeded but a few miles when Kongoni discovered a herd of topi.
1
On the top of your head you must have a sun helmet.
2
He put on a sun helmet, and led the way from the room.
3
He affects a frock and high hat one day, and knickerbockers and sun helmet the next.
4
The sun helmet was on his head.
5
One was the Professor, clearly recognisable under his white sun helmet; the other a stranger to all of them.
1
With a light heart I put on a sola hat like the sahebs, and drove out to my work.
2
As he advanced upon me I seized the large, white sola hat from my head, and hurled it full in his face.
1
They were both young and dressed much alike in broad-brimmed pith hats, loose red shirts, corduroy trousers and high boots with spurs.
Usage of pith helmet in English
1
Russell had my pith helmet and a suit of khaki and leggins.
2
He wore a suede jacket, a pith helmet, and heavy woolen trousers.
3
William regarded him thoughtfully, from his pith helmet to his greased ankle-boots.
4
The dome of his pith helmet rose above the average level of heads.
5
The mailman himself was walking toward us, a pith helmet shading his face.
6
The man in the pith helmet listened to Miller without any trace of emotion.
7
He carried the Winchester over his arm, and still wore the grimy pith helmet.
8
Under his pith helmet no fringe of hair showed; the man was completely bald.
9
On the one hand, seriously, is that woman actually wearing a pith helmet in Nairobi?
10
The brother wore a pith helmet, and his bronzed cheek told of service under tropical suns.
11
A pith helmet, Norfolk jacket, moleskin riding-breeches, leather puttees, and stout, pigskin footwear-thesewere strange apparel.
12
He wore a Frank S. Buck outfit, complete with pith helmet to hide his thinning hair.
13
Small white wings sprouted from his pith helmet.
14
He wheeled to face an utter stranger- atall ,black-haired ,gray-eyedstranger clad in khaki and pith helmet.
15
For Tor, a piece of embroidery and a pith helmet made with ostrich feathers around the brim.
16
Sporting a pith helmet in Kenya was certainly not the right signal to send in a post-colonial world.
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Pith helmet through the time
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