Sentence examples for hatstand from inspiring English sources
noun
A device used to store hats upon. Usually made of wood and standing at least five foot tall, they have a single pole making up most of the height, with a sturdy base to prevent toppling, and an array of lengthy pegs at the top for placement of hats.
Try to resist the urge to use them as a hatstand for your latest undulating parametric headpiece.
Here is one of the historic pegs of the sport – ball, bat, stumps, umpire – reduced to the status of gooseberry, a branded hanger-on, a mobile hatstand.
There has even been some cautious talk that the 35-year-old Sol Campbell could be asked to come in and "do a job", presumably as a bespoke managerial hatstand or a slightly cumbersome occasional table.
My last au pair could barely fit a hatstand in a carpetbag".
Or do you feel the two hats don't even belong on the same hatstand?
Dappy, when you go away for the weekend, can you get your hatstand in the boot or do you have to poke it out of the window?
And once you've bought, you're not allowed to exhale with relief as you christen the hatstand and pour your inaugural brandy.
Some time in the early 1990s, government became fixated on the idea that it could place a price on all its assets, and declared how much the Foreign Office, say, was worth – its palace in Whitehall, its beautiful embassies, its chairs, and hatstands.
Two buff boys in bowler hats and three-piece suits performed seemingly impossible balancing acts with matching props of umbrellas, hatstands and copies of the Financial Times.
He tries to remove the corpse without spooking the other guests, hiding it in wardrobes, linen baskets and behind hatstands.
"Zlatan pretty much defines the jibe 'hatstand' in every sense".
