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

Gillette played Sherlock Holmes on stage many times, his deerstalker cap and Inverness cape shaping the image we still conjure today.

From Washington Post • Sep. 23, 2020

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 was wearing his trademark tweed deerstalker and a large digital watch-cum-calculator.

From The Guardian • Feb. 20, 2016

If he was a Hasid, he had exchanged his fur shtreimel for a deerstalker cap and traded in his somber frock coat for a green Norfolk jacket.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros