top-hattedとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From top hat +‎ -ed.

形容詞

top-hatted (not comparable)

1. Wearing a top hat.
   • 1960 June, M.G.D. Farr, “Railbus services in the Western Region”, in Trains Illustrated, page 366:

     Half-an-hour later the whistle blew to summon the passengers back to the train, and they then moved on to Tetbury, where a procession was formed and slow-marched into the centre of the town, led by two top-hatted "mourners".

   • 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 38:

     While walking in the off-peak over the small wood-panelled footbridge [at Baker Street station] that connects the two original platforms - which itself resembles an old-fashioned railway carriage hoisted above the tracks - I would not be surprised to see a top-hatted man approaching me.

   • 2024 March 14, Billy Stockwell, “The ‘drinking bird’ makes a comeback and could power your gadgets with clean energy”, in CNN‎:

     The top-hatted “drinking bird,” once a fixture in science classrooms for demonstrating the basics of thermodynamics, is making a surprising comeback — as the inspiration for a new clean-energy generator that could one day power your watch and phone.

同意語

• betoppered
• toppered

参照

• “top-hatted”, in Collins English Dictionary.