porkpie hat

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Recent Examples of porkpie hat Top that off with Oppenheimer’s signature wide-brim porkpie hat (which was surprisingly difficult for the costume designer to source), and the look felt timeless, says Mirojnick. Beatrice Verhoeven, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Feb. 2024 But the wide-brim porkpie hat that was such a signature part of Oppenheimer’s look was surprisingly difficult to find. Beatrice Verhoeven, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Jan. 2024 Lopez, a slight, courtly sixty-one-year-old who wears a porkpie hat and walks with a cane, relayed his story to Minogue. Jennifer Egan, The New Yorker, 11 Sep. 2023 So, go, get into the spirit and put on some pink or don an exaggerated porkpie hat. Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times, 28 July 2023 Some sly military-industrial complex humor creeps in as Oppenheimer, clad in his signature gray waistcoat and rumpled porkpie hat, leads this massively complicated undertaking at the surly behest of Col. Leslie R. Groves (a gruffly amusing Matt Damon). Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times, 19 July 2023 Perhaps the most important sequence shot at Ghost Ranch was the moment in which Murphy puts on Oppenheimer’s distinctive porkpie hat for the first time, an action symbolic of the physicist truly coming into his own as the leader of this massive effort. Jada Yuan, Washington Post, 19 July 2023 To Stevens, the movie critic at Slate, Keaton — with his stone face, porkpie hat and calm acrobatics — was the ultimate 20th century man. Chris Vognar, Los Angeles Times, 21 Jan. 2022 And the promise of Luke Kirby inevitably wearing a bomber jacket and a porkpie hat in the next episode has given me the strength to keep tuning in. Kyndall Cunningham, Vulture, 5 Aug. 2021
Recent Examples of Synonyms for porkpie hat
Noun
  • Hidden under a baseball cap and a pair of dark aviator sunglasses, Ben Navarro leans forward in his seat in the stands at Melbourne’s Margaret Court Arena, fixated on the blue acrylic tennis court below.
    Jemima McEvoy, Forbes.com, 2 Apr. 2025
  • Carey wore a sequin jacket and her natural curls while .Paak stepped out in a flannel jacket, graphic T-shirt and baseball cap worn backwards.
    Michelle Lee, People.com, 31 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • One of the most popular traditional costumes was the bauta, which consisted of a full mask, a cape that covered the head and shoulders, and a tricorn or cocked hat.
    Elizabeth Djinis, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Feb. 2024
  • Heather Wilson, a nurse anesthetist, wore huge fake eyelashes and an absurd cocked hat.
    William Finnegan, The New Yorker, 15 May 2021
Noun
  • People are most likely to forget gloves on Mondays, jackets on Tuesdays and cowboy hats on Saturdays.
    Alexandra Pastore, Footwear News, 8 Apr. 2025
  • In the dining room, a wicker hanging light inspired by cowboy hats by Hannelore Maet hangs above a table by Eric Vandenhulle the face chairs are vintage.
    Michael James Gardner, Architectural Digest, 19 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Clockwise from top: A 1957 Balenciaga hat, Deirdre Hawken’s Cauliflower Headpiece from 2013, a layered silk hat from the 1940s, and a 1942 Germaine Vittu hat.
    Nathan Heller, Vogue, 17 Apr. 2024
  • Yet, Halston does clock something of use from the experience: a young woman in the audience who, among the sweater sets, is wearing a colorful silk hat.
    Whitney Friedlander, Vulture, 14 May 2021
Noun
  • The Royal Enclosure requires all women to wear hats and, in most cases, skirts or dresses to the knee, while men must wear top hats and morning suits.
    Tianwei Zhang, WWD, 25 Feb. 2025
  • There was a ripple of audience laugher during the buildup, when a member of the troupe wearing a top hat performed elaborate stretches as though limbering up for a marathon.
    Houman Barekat, New York Times, 24 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • But later, investigators were able to use genetic evidence from a stocking cap found near Schlais’ body to arrest Miller more than 50 years later.
    Lesley Cosme Torres, People.com, 31 Mar. 2025
  • First-off, there might not be a Casey’s or Kwik Trip between the Twin Cities and New Ulm that carries a blaze orange stocking cap.
    Tribune News Service, Orange County Register, 17 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • Instead of high hats, use wall washers, which bounce light off the walls and space.
    Adam Shell, USA TODAY, 17 Mar. 2025
  • Going high hat just did not fit, and on Sept. 9, 1927, the Bernheimer flags came down.
    Jacques Kelly, Baltimore Sun, 4 June 2022
Noun
  • This regulatory void raises concerns about exclusions for pre-existing conditions, potential service caps, and the absence of comprehensive coverage for preventive care.
    Richard Menger MD MPA, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2025
  • And blowing a whistle, a proletarian prophet in a red service cap.
    Ostap Kin, The New York Review of Books, 23 Mar. 2022

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“Porkpie hat.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/porkpie%20hat. Accessed 11 Apr. 2025.

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