trilby• One was asleep, napping under a trilby hat pulled down over his eyes.• Above them was a trilby that had belonged to Peter's father.• I have a greytrilby which I have had for many years.• He had on a leathertrilby and a singlebreasted leather coat with a tiebelt.• All sported perkytrilbies like Jack the Hat.• Francie had taken his fiddle and gone off about his own business in his Easter Rising trilby and mackintosh.• Black hair curled from under the trilby and hung over his coat collar.• It was a deepblue colour and had a matching hat like a tinytrilby, decorated with a feather.
Origintrilby
(1800-1900)Trilby, female character in the book Trilby (1894) by George Du Maurier, who in the stage version of the book wore such a hat