Porkpie

Of medium height, stocky, tattooed, unsmiling, with eyes concealed by Wayfarers under a black leather porkpie hat, Rojas was a badass Eastsider. ❋ P. G. Sturges (2011)

The barbette or porkpie hat was a stiff band of several inches depth that went around the head with a piece of fabric wrapping underthe chin to hold it on. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Young in his later years, wearing trademark porkpie hat. ❋ Con Chapman (2011)

It's an uninspired, cynical and distinctly saggy effort, to be honest, which deserves to sink without a trace, but then again Hugo HUGO! is grouchily handsome and wears a lovely jaunty porkpie hat, so maybe it's actually dead good and deserves all the success it's predicted. ❋ Unknown (2011)

This discomfited some of the Zuccotti inhabitants, aware of anti-Semitism charges against the movement, so an OWSer in an undershirt and porkpie hat poured coffee down the guy's back, who called out to demand his constitutional rights from a bemused-looking senior NYPD official. ❋ Daniel Henninger (2011)

I was a little puzzled by the rice paddies that seem to be planted in the Forest of Arden, but I loved the trees, and I loved the 1930oid costuming -- except for Rosalind's polo shirt and khakis and little porkpie hat, which made her look like a baby Ellen DeGeneres. ❋ Deliasherman (2010)

Harborside's founder and chief executive, Steve DeAngelo, remarkable for his pigtails and porkpie hats, is considering throwing one of them (hat, that is) into the ring. ❋ Adrian Higgins (2010)

Bevel wore a feathered porkpie hat and an uneven beard -- both of which made him look like a member of a lost, dark-skinned Amish tribe. ❋ Shawn Amos (2011)

But after telling a mountain of lies, collecting boatloads of cash and committing a few more murders, Walt now seems about as black as his alter ego Heisenberg's porkpie hat. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The bent, shuffling figure in a porkpie hat shown on the news being hustled to an Air France plane by U.S. marshals on Monday was impossible to recognize as Manuel "the Pineapple" Noriega, the Panamanian dictator I used to know. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Here they do a set of sambas with a gafiera-style big band, which is a rare configuration these days, adding the occasional electronic sounds as a jaunty tip of the porkpie to modernity. ❋ Marty Lipp (2010)

They are wearing identical outfits, including sharp-looking double-breasted, plaid jackets and porkpie hats. ❋ Unknown (2010)

In an oft-published shot from 1948, Mr. Leonard portrayed tenor saxophonist Dexter Gordon sitting amid a cloud of smoke, his porkpie hat tilted back, with his saxophone creating a strong diagonal line across the center of the photograph. ❋ Unknown (2010)

His porkpie hat flew off his head and seemed to stay suspended in midair, even after the bullets had knocked him to the ground. ❋ Louis Diaz (2010)

There's the beanie, the porkpie, the beret and the newsboy cap, plus a few dozen others the drummer donned on "Nouvelle Star," the French equivalent of "American Idol," where he was the resident Simon Cowell. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Thursday, Pathak stood out as the band's lone lawyer: Whereas the guitarist wore a porkpie hat atop his long hair and the bass player had a ponytail and a half-goatee, Pathak was clean-cut -- though, he said, he'd rushed home from his Reston office "to peel my lawyer outfit off and put my rock clothes on." ❋ Unknown (2010)

Mr. KUNIAN: Flapper dresses and porkpie hats and suspenders. ❋ Unknown (2010)

If you put his many characters side by side, their real marvel is how limited a set of tools he used to play them: save for a couple of Southern accents and the occasional porkpie hat, he relied on only the raw material of his voice and body. ❋ Unknown (2010)

But from the end of June through the middle of July you can spot people in everything from urban hipster flannels and porkpie hats to dashikis as they make their way from their residence, high on a hill overlooking the Hudson Valley, to a long, red former dairy barn across the road that has been converted into artists 'studios. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The [rude boys] all [sportin] their porkpie [caps]. ❋ Zenchop (2009)

J: Hey mate, [how's it] goin? M: J: Porkpied! M: Was I porkpieing you? J: You totally 'pied me, you bummer M: [OK OK], no need to get [eggy] ❋ MS (2005)

Her porkpie is [soo] [hairy]. ❋ Anonymous (2003)

my porkpies [a bit] [itchy] ❋ Ben Crawford (2003)

[i tell you what] [licking out] [that bitch] is like having a porkpie chomp ❋ The Chomp (2011)