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Steeple-crowned   Listen
adjective
Steeple-crowned  adj.  
1.
Bearing a steeple; as, a steeple-crowned building.
2.
Having a crown shaped like a steeple; as, a steeple-crowned hat; also, wearing a hat with such a crown. "This grave, bearded, sable-cloaked, and steeple-crowned progenitor."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Steeple-crowned" Quotes from Famous Books



... their new- found home. The old settlers gaze not less earnestly at him, than he at the hoary woods and the rough surface of the clearings. They like his bearded face, under the shadow of the broad-brimmed and steeple-crowned Puritan hat;—a visage resolute, grave, and thoughtful, yet apt to kindle with that glow of a cheerful spirit by which men of strong character are enabled to go joyfully on their proper tasks. His form, too, as you see it, in a doublet and hose of sad-colored ...
— Main Street - (From: "The Snow Image and Other Twice-Told Tales") • Nathaniel Hawthorne



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