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Flat-headed. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1901, rev. 2022. Flat-headed a. (Stress equal or variable.) a. Having a flat head or top. † b. Wearing a flat hat.

1 1652.  Ld. Digby, Elvira, III. (1667), 36.                    A sharp-pointed Hat, (Now that you see the Gallants all Flat headed,) Appears not so ridiculous, as Yonker, Without a love Intreegue, to Introduce, And sparkefy him there.

2 1752.  Sir J. Hill, Hist. Anim., 103. The larger, smooth, and flat-headed Amphisbæna.

3 1853.  Sir H. Douglas, Milit. Bridges (ed. 3), iv. 185. Flat-headed boats should not be used unless their breadth is very small.

4 1880.  G. Meredith, Trag. Com., 242. I have not a clod’s perception, I have not a spark of sense to distinguish me from a flat-headed Lapp, if she refuses:—call me a mountebank who has gained his position by clever tumbling; a lucky gamester; whatever plays blind with chance.

5 1881.  Freeman, Subj. Venice, 216. This doorway is flat-headed and has lost all mediæval character, while the cloister itself is a graceful design with columns and trefoil arches, which in other lands one would attribute to a much earlier date.

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