Then you see an opera hat coming at you out of nowhere.

The mind was kept in readiness, like a vacant seat at the theatre on which the owner had left his opera hat.

Somehow, magician Spurling produced the whole story from the opera hat.

For this reason they are often called opera hats, though the term can also refer to any tall formal men's hat.

An opera hat was jauntily perched on his head.

He wore an opera hat and a cloak.

This was worn with ordinary dress shirt, collar, white bow tie, and opera hat.

He had not been so important in his family since he had bought his opera hat.

Doctors may wear their doctoral headgear instead of opera hats even for non-academic occasions.

I was persuaded that to the white moustache had now been added a collapsible opera hat and a scarlet lined cloak.

In his appearance he wore a striped pullover and a battered, beflowered silk opera hat.

An opera hat was pushed to the back of his head, and an evening dress shirt-front gleamed out through his open overcoat.

This accommodated the goldfish bowl and a folding opera hat, filled with multicoloured silk handkerchiefs.

The Griffon had flattened his opera hat and slipped on a rakish black-and- white plaid cap.

Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (a movie based on his book Opera Hat)

Annabel was helpful: 'The aviator wears an opera hat with the rockets in 'em, and every time he shuts the thing, a rocket goes off.'

"We carry all kinds of hats, from cowboy hats to opera hats," Mr. Buranelli said.

It fell, also; and from the back of the seat came a crushed opera hat, which popped open and reached The Shadow's head just as the officer arrived.

"What are you doing in this car -" The officer's challenge ended with the sight of a surprised man attired in full-dress clothes and wearing an opera hat.

PIERRE BERGE came to New York yesterday wearing his opera hat.

The 'knut' or 'masher' still appears, almost as in Edwardian days, in out-of-date looking evening-clothes and an opera hat, or even spats and a knobby cane.

Ridden by Ruby Walsh he started at odds of 8/1 in a five horse field against Florida Pearl, Dorans Pride, Opera Hat and Escartefigue.

He was wearing a collapsible opera hat, which was fine on the collapsible part but regrettably lacking in hatness, so that Arthur appeared to be looking at the world from under a concertina.

He was beaten when odds-on favourite for the Cork Grand National, but then defeated the leading racemare Opera Hat (winner of the Melling Chase) at Naas, winning by fifteen lengths.

Grosgrain ribbons are popular creating ribbon decorations for hats (made into flowers, for example), however grosgrain is most notably used in top hats, opera hats, or as the trimming band on the Homburg.