Deerstalker

I hesitated a little when I realized that the clothes he had brought for me were my own, but of the kind one wore for hunting, even down to the knee-high leather boots, tweed breeches and a three-eared cap-what they call a deerstalker in England-which I fastened under my chin. ❋ Moorcock, Michael, 1939- (2001)

(I can still remember the cover of that book by the way, with its iconic painting of Holmes in deerstalker cap and magnifying glass). ❋ Unknown (2007)

Those never exposed to Sherlock Holmes beyond the vague idea of the stodgy Brit in the deerstalker cap and cloak while wielding a giant magnifying glass will discover an energetic and exciting spin on the character. ❋ Unknown (2009)

CUT TO: black cloud of smoke wearing a Sherlock Holmes hat I believe they are called “deerstalker”, no doubt because of all those deer Sherlock Holmes killed by leaping out of trees and ripping out their throats with his teeth. ❋ A.G. Pasquella (2011)

The deerstalker updated for today's modern man by Galliano. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Even now, more than 80 years since his death, and a century and a quarter since fiction's most celebrated consulting detective made his bow in "A Study in Scarlet" 1887, any impressionist who ventures onto a television screen in a deerstalker hat with a murmur of "Elementary, my dear Watson" can be sure of having four-fifths of the audience instantly on his side. ❋ D.J. Taylor (2011)

Known for his deerstalker hat and courtside seat, Mieuli purchased a stake in the Warriors 'organization when it moved West from Philadelphia in 1962. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The clues aren't obvious—very few will be decked in deerstalker hats or carrying a pipe, and they most pointedly do not say, "Elementary, my dear Watson," a phrase their hero never once uttered in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's works. ❋ Jo Piazza (2012)

In the iconic title role, Benedict Cumberbatch is deerstalker-free, but full of the arrogance, genius and disregard for the niceties of conversation that make the best Sherlocks work, while Martin Freeman brings a world-weariness to Watson, an army doctor haunted by his time in Afghanistan. ❋ Previews By Will Dean (2010)

If you want Solar Pons in his deerstalker cap in the foggy streets of London during the reign of Victoria, you better at least pull up a map of London during that period ... or you'll be laughed off of Baskerville Estate. ❋ Unknown (2008)

But we're generally still too much in the forest of post-Victorianism to do more than wince at the tree of say, Matt Frewer in a deerstalker. ❋ Z0mbieastronaut (2008)

Her proxy was male: Sherlock Holmes with deerstalker hat, pipe, and a sneer that matched her own. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Henry Carwardine, in a belted tweed coat and deerstalker hat, looked like an Edwardian gentleman on his way to the grouse moors. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The world also lost Franklin Mieuli, quite possibly the only NBA owner to sport a deerstalker cap on the sidelines. ❋ Unknown (2010)

There are times my tinfoil deerstalker tells me that the media and DC and Wall Street love that campaign money so much, they keep moving the bart on us so we continue to spend billions on political advertising. ❋ Unknown (2010)

To this day, even a liberal can get away with donning tweeds, lighting his Meerschaum pipe, putting on his deerstalker, taking up his Purdey, and downing a few quail over pointers. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Today, the universal sign for detective, across cultures, is a tall, thin figure in deerstalker and Inverness cape — a certain sign of immortality. ❋ The Stiletto Gang (2008)