shovel hatn.
a. A stiff broad-brimmed hat, turned up at the sides and projecting with a shovel-like curve in front and behind, worn by some ecclesiastics.
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society > faith > artefacts > vestments > headgear > [noun] > hat > shovel
shovel hat1829
shovel1841
rehoboam1849
1829 T. Carlyle Jrnl. in J. A. Froude T. Carlyle: First Forty Years (1882) II. iv. 73 Does not the very sight of a shovel hat in some degree indispose me to the wearer thereof?
1847 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair (1848) xxxii. 280 If he could have got a shovel-hat he would have worn it.
1871 Fair France ii. 58 The priest..in shovel hat and cassock appeared a pleasant gentleman enough.
1889 W. S. Gilbert Gondoliers ii. 35 And Bishops in their shovel hats Were plentiful as tabby cats.
b. transferred. A wearer of such a hat.
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society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > [noun]
God's maneOE
priestOE
clerkc1050
secularc1290
vicary1303
minister1340
divinec1380
man of Godc1384
kirkmana1400
man of the churchc1400
cockc1405
Ecclesiastc1405
spiritual1441
ministrator1450
abbé1530
reverend1547
churchman1549
tippet-captain?1550
tippet knight1551
tippet man1551
public minister1564
reading minister1572
clergyman1577
clerk1577
padre1584
minstrel1586
spiritual1600
cleric1623
cassock1628
Levite1640
gownsman1641
teaching elder1642
ecclesiastic1651
religionist1651
crape1682
crape-gown-man1682
man in black1692
soul driver1699
secularist1716
autem jet1737
liturge1737
officiant1740
snub-devil1785
soul doctor1785
officiator1801
umfundisi1825
crape-man1826
clerical1837
God-man1842
Pfarrer1844
liturgist1848
white-choker1851
rook1859
shovel hat1859
sky pilot1865
ecclesiastical1883
joss-pidgin-man1886
josser1887
sin-shiftera1912
sin-buster1931
parch1944
1859 C. J. Lever Davenport Dunn lxvii A regular don amongst the shovel-hats.
Derivatives
shovel-ˈhatted adj. wearing a shovel hat; transferred of or pertaining to the ideas or opinions of a wearer of a shovel hat.
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society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > [adjective]
rulerc1390
reverent1398
ruly?c1450
ecclesiasticala1538
ministerial1561
clerical1592
ecclesiastic1603
cleric1623
reverend1625
clergical1632
clergya1635
hieratical1656
churchmanlike1786
shovel-hatted1832
churchmanly1833
hieratic1866
1832 T. Carlyle in Fraser's Mag. May 380/1 A cleanly, Shovel-hatted look.
1847 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair (1848) xi. 84 A tall, stately, jolly, shovel-hatted man.
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