subs. phr. (obsolete).—A hat: modish in the Sixties. [In shape resembling a pork-pie, or the Spanish ‘toreador,’ fashionable in the Nineties.]
186[?]. Music Hall Song, ‘In the Strand.’ A PORK-PIE hat with a little feather.
1860. Punch, xxxix. 118. ‘O, look here, Bill; here’s a swell with a PORK-PIE on his head!”
1863. M. E. BRADDON, Aurora Floyd, xii. She rode across country, wearing a hat which provoked considerable criticism,—a hat which was no other than the now universal turban, or PORK PIE, but which was new to the world in the autumn of fifty-eight.
1868. C. READE and BOUCICAULT, Foul Play, xxxii. She made herself a sealskin jacket and PORK-PIE hat.
1883. BRET HARTE, In the Carquinez Woods, iv. The hat thus procured, a few days later, became, by the aid of a silk handkerchief and a bluejay’s feather, a fascinating ‘PORK PIE.’
