Bearing a steeple; as, a steeple-crowned building.
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Having a crown shaped like a steeple; as, a steeple-crowned hat; also, wearing a hat with such a crown. "This grave, bearded, sable-cloaked, and steeple-crowned progenitor."
... Solomon John, and the little boys. They had to climb up over high rocks, and in among huckleberry-bushes and black berry-vines. But the little boys had their india-rubber boots. At last they discovered the little old woman. They knew her by her hat. It was steeple-crowned, without any vane. They saw her digging with her trowel round a sassafras bush. They told her their story,—-how their mother had put salt in her coffee, and how the chemist had made it worse instead of better, and how their mother couldn't drink it, and wouldn't she come and see what she could ... — The Peterkin Papers • Lucretia P Hale
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