pillbox
4
7.4
- noun
- /ˈpɪlˌbɑks/
- Archaic
:
toque
- When they got out, they were in front of a store with black mannequins wearing pillbox hats and mannequins painted bright green standing inside piles of hula hoops.
- pillbox hat
- pink pillbox
- black pillbox
Examples
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Her auburn hair was molded into a bouffant hairdo and topped with a pillbox hat.
Fiction book (1999) -
A white-gloved doorman, all blue wool and gold buttons and shined shoes, stood dead center and tipped his pillbox hat.
Fiction book (1999) -
You ran into the room in your slip and pillbox hat.
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Jackie is like a crawling animal in a pillbox hat on the back of the car.
Fiction book (1991) -
A diminutive woman in a French maid's uniform with a pillbox hat.
Fiction book (1990) -
He wears a brass-buttoned uniform, white gloves, and a pillbox hat.
Fiction book (1994) -
Also on this float ride, several of the cheerleader coeds were dressed in pink with matching pillbox hats.
Academic text (1997) -
He's dressed in the uniform of a 1920s usher: spats, white gloves, pillbox hat.
Fiction book (1993) -
The pink pillbox hat with the white netted veil came down in Titi's hands, crowning her head.
Fiction book (1997) -
She wore a stylish pillbox hat to the tea party, which complemented her elegant dress.
Synonyms
3
4.7
A small hat that fits close and wraps around the head
1
1.4
A hat made for women that follows fashion
1
8.6
A small round hat for women that fits close to the head
How Formal
Surface Forms
Etymology
Pillbox (hat) gets its name from a small medicine pill box; the hat's straight sides and flat top 'look like' that little box, so people started calling the hat a 'pillbox'.