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4 CA'THOS, cousin of Madelon, brought up by her uncle Gor'gibus, a plain citizen in the middle rank of life. — Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook
Who are the owners of all those showy scarfs and white neckcloths?--Ask little Tom Prig, who is there in all his glory, knows everybody, has a story about every one; and, as he trips home to his lodgings in Jermyn Street, with his gibus-hat and his little glazed pumps, thinks he is the fashionablest young fellow in town, and that he really has passed a night of exquisite enjoyment You go up (with our usual easy elegance of manner) and talk to Miss Smith in a corner. — The Book of Snobs
His gibus slipped from his hand and rolled over the floor. — The Child of Pleasure
Upon my word, she almost blew my gibus away from under my arm sometimes. — Lippincott's Magazine Of Popular Literature And Science Old Series, Vol. 36—New Series, Vol. 10, July 1885
The craziness of the gibus hats beats description. — The Cathedral