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CHAPEAU (chapeaux)

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does chapeau mean? 

CHAPEAU (noun)
  The noun CHAPEAU has 1 sense:

1. headdress that protects the head from bad weather; has shaped crown and usually a brimplay

  Familiarity information: CHAPEAU used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


CHAPEAU (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Headdress that protects the head from bad weather; has shaped crown and usually a brim

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

chapeau; hat; lid

Hypernyms ("chapeau" is a kind of...):

headdress; headgear (clothing for the head)

Meronyms (parts of "chapeau"):

hatband (a band around the crown of a hat just above the brim)

crown (the part of a hat (the vertex) that covers the crown of the head)

brim (a circular projection that sticks outward from the crown of a hat)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "chapeau"):

fedora; felt hat; homburg; Stetson; trilby (a hat made of felt with a creased crown)

tirolean; tyrolean (soft green felt hat with a feather or brush cockade)

toque (a tall white hat with a pouched crown; worn by chefs)

titfer (a hat (Cockney rhyming slang: 'tit for tat' rhymes with 'hat'))

sun hat; sunhat (a hat with a broad brim that protects the face from direct exposure to the sun)

sou'wester (waterproof hat with wide slanting brim longer in back than in front)

sombrero (a straw hat with a tall crown and broad brim; worn in American southwest and in Mexico)

snap-brim hat (a hat with a snap brim)

shovel hat (a stiff broad-brimmed hat with the brim turned up at the sides and projecting in front; worn by some clergymen in Britain)

millinery; woman's hat (hats for women; the wares sold by a milliner)

fur hat (a hat made of fur)

bearskin; busby; shako (tall hat; worn by some British soldiers on ceremonial occasions)

dunce's cap; dunce cap; fool's cap (a cone-shaped paper hat formerly placed on the head of slow or lazy pupils)

beaver; dress hat; high hat; opera hat; silk hat; stovepipe; top hat; topper (a man's hat with a tall crown; usually covered with silk or with beaver fur)

deerstalker (a tight-fitting hat with visors front and back; formerly worn by hunters)

cowboy hat; ten-gallon hat (a hat with a wide brim and a soft crown; worn by American ranch hands)

cocked hat (hat with opposing brims turned up and caught together to form points)

cavalier hat; slouch hat (a soft felt hat with a wide flexible brim)

campaign hat (a broad-brimmed felt hat with a high crown; formerly worn by the United States Army and Marine personnel)

bowler; bowler hat; derby; derby hat; plug hat (a felt hat that is round and hard with a narrow brim)

bonnet; poke bonnet (a hat tied under the chin)

boater; leghorn; Panama; Panama hat; sailor; skimmer; straw hat (a stiff hat made of straw with a flat crown)


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