Racegoers in trilby's, murderers with torsos in cabin trunks. From Wordnik.com. [Brighton Clock] Reference
"Most popular is our short-brimmed trilby, which is a young fashion take on a regular trilby.". From Wordnik.com. [The Latest Hat Craze] Reference
Note how Indy's has a wider brim, unlike the one on the left The one on the left is more like a trilby, which is essentially a fedora with a narrower brim. From Wordnik.com. [Original Signal - Transmitting Digg] Reference
“Any of them wearing a raincoat and a trilby hat?”. From Wordnik.com. [The Short Forever]
He took off his trilby hat and smoothed back his hair. From Wordnik.com. [Every living thing]
Not always in a black homburg? sometimes in a brown trilby. From Wordnik.com. [Michael Frayn: The day my life changed] Reference
A straw hat or trilby works best with casual or contemporary looks. From Wordnik.com. [The Latest Hat Craze] Reference
The shadow of a hat was across the windscreen, a respectable trilby. From Wordnik.com. [The Striker Portfolio]
Todd says he'll trade you some marshmallow Peeps for a chocolate trilby!. From Wordnik.com. [Easter Reflections] Reference
Worn them with an American Apparel vest, a straw trilby and a flat sandal?. From Wordnik.com. [Wear autumn's trends now] Reference
Check the CCTV footage for a man in a trilby with an Ensign Selfix 420 camera. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-08-01] Reference
Geoffrey Rush, for reasons that I suspect will remain opaque, is wearing a trilby. From Wordnik.com. [Live blog: The Golden Globes – live! | Hadley Freeman] Reference
About forty, I judged, with a raincoat, a crisp-looking trilby and a down-turning moustache. From Wordnik.com. [In The Frame]
He will wear a trilby hat all the time, but his post-war austerity sense of style will charm me. From Wordnik.com. [My Old Guy Boyfriend] Reference
George grabbed Clough's overcoat and his own trench coat, jamming his trilby down over his hair. From Wordnik.com. [A Place of Execution]
He was followed by two men dressed almost identically in navy suits, trilby hats and trench coats. From Wordnik.com. [A Place of Execution]
“A raincoat and a trilby hat, which I thought was odd, since the weather is so nice at the moment.”. From Wordnik.com. [The Short Forever]
"I was born old," says the wiry, bearded Northern Irishman as he sits next to me, in a suit and trilby. From Wordnik.com. [Neil Hannon: 'I was born old. I was an old man trapped in a young man's body'] Reference
Kathy Lomas stood at her window and watched the darkness swallow the tall man in the mac and the trilby. From Wordnik.com. [A Place of Execution]
And he says he has to keep his trenchcoat on and his trilby pulled down over his eyes everywhere he goes. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-07-01] Reference
"They put a lot of money into the hat to give to people," Mr. Szücs said, doffing his ribbed tan trilby. From Wordnik.com. [Pension Glut Lies at Heart of Crisis Wracking Hungary] Reference
He had on the proverbial trilby that looked as though there should be a betting slip tucked into the band. From Wordnik.com. [A Small Death in the Great Glen] Reference
Dismayed, Kohl looked up and saw Peter Krauss, in a shabby brown suit and matching felt trilby hat, approach. From Wordnik.com. [Garden of Beasts]
Donning his trademark trilby -- "white for summer, black for winter" -- he heads off into the haze of Beijing. From Wordnik.com. [The U.N.'s Man of Mystery] Reference
In 1925, they meet their Parsifal - a wild-eyed Viennese opera-fanatic in a trilby hat, a mac and a badly fitting suit. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-08-01] Reference
A tip of the trilby to Gary Brown, a political-science professor in The Woodlands, Texas, for coming closest to guessing. From Wordnik.com. [Crystal Ball] Reference
Look at Pete Doherty – pre-trilby he was the lovely bloke from The Libertines, then he puts on a trilby and goes to jail. From Wordnik.com. [Jade Goody Continues To List Everything Terrible About Herself] Reference
It was almost dark when the tall figure finally emerged from the gathering dusk, smartly suited and wearing his best trilby. From Wordnik.com. [Fathers & Sons] Reference
Jeremy Thorpe charged up holiday beaches in a hovercraft, wearing a three-piece suit and a trilby hat (am I making this up?). From Wordnik.com. [John Rentoul today puts Trevor Kavanagh and myself in the...] Reference
"This is a song about the Geneva Convention of human rights," says David Ford, tipping his trilby to an even more rakish angle. From Wordnik.com. [David Ford] Reference
Mr Robertson took a seat near the window of the coffee shop and carefully placed his trilby on the left hand corner of the table. From Wordnik.com. [Cinnamon Doughnuts and a Neenish Tart] Reference
He was a seedy little man, who always wore the same dusty charcoal-grey suit and a brown trilby far too jaunty for a man his age. From Wordnik.com. [Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine]
Men in loud check suits and trilby hats mingle with ladies draped in fur with thick woolen coats to keep out the biting chill of the wind. From Wordnik.com. [A Showdown at the Horses] Reference
They wore trilby hats and large shoes, and gave off that indefinable aura of solid menace which characterizes many plain-clothes policemen. From Wordnik.com. [Dead Cert]
You know, I've always wondered, a Lucia said, pointing up to a shelf above the officers 'bunks, why they brought that trilby hat down here. From Wordnik.com. [Terra Incognita]
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