high-crowned
- adjective
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- By his bearing, by his clothing, by the tilted fashion with which he wears his high-crowned, flat-brimmed hat, and by the way he hangs his sword and dagger for comfort and quick access and not for show or style, he is or was once a soldier himself.
Examples
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Boy that I was, I can only guess at what he must have made of me; and he, tricked out in a high-crowned hat, Geneva cape, staff, spurs, and bucket-top boots,
Academic text (2015) -
Two snowy white braids dangled from under his black-brimmed, high-crowned hat.
Fiction book (1993) -
They drive up a hill past a cafe, two Indians in high-crowned cowboy hats standing outside of the cafe.
Fiction book (1998) -
These were tall, high crowned pieces wrought in the new Manorian style and forged of mithril.
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Hanging from the gun rack across the back window was a high-crowned black cowboy hat with a feather in the hatband, probably worn when he and Amy went to the western dance clubs.
Fiction book (1993) -
Two Indians with long black hair and feathers in their high-crowned cowboy hats stood beside a battered pickup, watching the Lariat and trailer approach.
Fiction book (1995) -
Discovered in central Chile, the skull of Santiagorothia bears extremely high-crowned teeth, well adapted for grazing on tough, abrasive grasses.
Academic text (2009) -
But also, toward the end, he came to resemble some hermit with his beard unshorn, and grew faint with debt, wearing a high-crowned hat and a desperate long cloak, and would converse in six tongues.
Fiction book (1991) -
Mammalian herbivores began to evolve teeth adapted to eating grass (so-called high-crowned teeth, which continue to erupt as the chewing surfaces are worn down).
Academic text (2008) -
He wore a high-crowned hat that added an air of elegance to his outfit.
Synonyms
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Very tall, like a tree or mountain, standing high above other things
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
High-crowned comes from the words high and crown, where crown means the 'top of the head', like a king's crown, or the 'top part of a hat'. So, a high-crowned hat is one with a tall top that sits above the head.