Chinaman's hat

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a cap for the exterior end of a stovepipe, designed to shed rain and snow.

Quotations

1933

The house is a gray, weather-beaten structure with a sharp-peaked roof and a crooked stovepipe . . . capped with a Chinaman's hat.