steeple-crown

Raising her right foot, Carmencita held it poised for a half-moment over the hated hat, then with long-restrained energy she brought it down on the steeple-crown and crushed it into shapelessness.

How It Happened Kate Langley Bosher 1898

As soon as the lather-cup and hone were agitated, Samson, without inquiry, went into a big green chest in the bedroom over the old wooden store, and drew out of a leather hat-box the steeple-crown, where

The Entailed Hat Or, Patty Cannon's Times George Alfred Townsend 1877

Two or three times he had been summoned on a jury, when he put on his best suit and his steeple-crown, and formally went through his task.

The Entailed Hat Or, Patty Cannon's Times George Alfred Townsend 1877

Vesta looked on with the first symptoms of amusement she had felt since the morning she and her mother laughed at the steeple-crown hat, as they looked down from the windows of Teackle Hall upon the man already her husband.

The Entailed Hat Or, Patty Cannon's Times George Alfred Townsend 1877

Ah! you brave old Tories; you staunch upholders of the crown; cavaliers without ringlets or feathers, russet boots or steeple-crown hats, it seems as if you were still hovering over this venerable tabernacle of seven hundred gables, and wreathing each particular ridge-pole, pigeon-hole, and shingle with a halo of fog. "

Acadia or, A Month with the Blue Noses Frederic S. Cozzens