deerstalker
Example Sentences
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Woolens became such a status symbol that Arthur Conan Doyle clad his fictional sleuth Sherlock Holmes in a tweed deerstalker hat in 1893.
From National Geographic • Jan. 14, 2021
People who love finding out the back stories in fictional universes — why Sherlock Holmes wears a deerstalker hat; where Indiana Jones got his scar — will relish the chance to learn these details.
From New York Times • May 19, 2020
He often depicted Mrs. Sharmat’s hero clad in a trench coat and deerstalker, a look of concentration on his face, his trusty dog Sludge by his side.
From Washington Post • Mar. 20, 2019
He was wearing his trademark tweed deerstalker and a large digital watch-cum-calculator.
From The Guardian • Feb. 20, 2016
In the original Sherlock Holmes stories Sherlock Holmes is never described as wearing a deerstalker hat, which is what he is always wearing in pictures and cartoons.
From "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" by Mark Haddon
