queer-crowned

Updated: May 7, 2025

You see that stout man with the hoarse voice, in the blue coat, queer-crowned, broad-brimmed hat, white corduroy breeches, and great boots, who has been talking incessantly for half an hour past, and whose importance has occasioned no small quantity of mirth among the strangers. That is the great conservator of the peace of Westminster.

Charles Dickens - Sketches by Boz, illustrative of everyday life and every-day people