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tirolean

tirolean

9.9
A soft green felt hat with a feather from Tyrol in Austria
  • noun
  • /tɪˈroʊliən/
: sombrero tirolés
  • He wore a traditional tirolean hat with a colorful feather during the festival.

Examples

  • At the craft fair, she admired a beautiful tirolean hat handmade from soft felt.

  • The tirolean hat is often worn by hikers in the Alps for both style and warmth.

  • Leopold Kretzenbacher discovered one in a southern Tirolean fresco from about 1400; both robes are full, lending further depth to the metaphoric symmetry of breast and wound.

    Academic text (2005)

Synonyms

titfer
vstirolean
  • Archaic
1 9.9

A hat people wear for smart or formal occasions

is a specific green felt alpine hat rather than a general slang name
Tyrolean
vstirolean
9.9

A soft green felt hat with a feather from the Tyrol region

is the same hat but represented by a different written form or spelling

Surface Forms

tirolean singular
tiroleans plural

Morphology

tirolean = Tyrolean (semi-transparent) = Tyrol + ean

The hat name is based on the adjective 'Tyrolean', but the noun is a specialized cultural item rather than a fully general everyday derivation.

Etymology

The word tirolean comes from the Alpine region Tyrol and the ending -ean, meaning 'from'. So a tirolean means 'from Tyrol' and is the name for the soft green felt hat with a feather that people in that region wear.