trilby

n., pl. tril·bies.

A soft felt hat with a deeply creased crown.

[After the novel Trilby by George du Maurier (because such a hat was worn in the original London stage production based on the novel).]

Trilby (1895), a play by Paul M. Potter. [Garden Theatre, 208 perf.] Three artists, known as the Laird (John Glendinning), Taffy (Burr McIntosh), and Little Billee (Alfred Hickman), use a pretty model, Trilby O'Ferrall (Virginia Harned), for work in their Latin Quarter atelier. But after a fight with Billee, Trilby leaves and is befriended by the strange genius Svengali (Wilton Lackaye), who uses his hypnotic powers to turn the girl into a great opera singer. Billee recognizes her at a performance and asks her to abandon Svengali and marry him, but she refuses. However, when Svengali suddenly dies, Trilby's voice deserts her. She is reunited with Billee briefly, but her exertions under Svengali's influence, coupled with the traumatic release from them, prove too much and she withers and dies. Based on the novel by George du Maurier, the adaptation was one of the greatest and more memorable successes of its era. The play was frequently revived, including a notable restaging in 1938 by Walter Hampden. It also provided the source for a musical that closed during its tryout, The Studio Girl (1927).

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The noun has one meaning:

Meaning #1: felt hat with a creased crown
  Synonyms: fedora, felt hat, homburg, Stetson

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Dansk (Danish)
n. - blød hat

idioms:

• trilby hat    filthat

Nederlands (Dutch)
gleufhoed

Français (French)
n. - (GB) chapeau en feutre, feutre

Deutsch (German)
n. - Schlapphut, weicher Filzhut

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - ρεπούμπλικα, μαλακό ανδρικό καπέλο

idioms:

• trilby hat    ρεπούμπλικα, μαλακό ανδρικό καπέλο

Italiano (Italian)
cappello di feltro

idioms:

• trilby hat    cappello di feltro

Português (Portuguese)
n. - chapéu de feltro

idioms:

• trilby hat    chapéu de feltro macio

Русский (Russian)
(сокр.) мужская мягкая шляпа

idioms:

• trilby hat    мужская мягкая шляпа

Español (Spanish)
n. - sombrero flexible

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - trilbyhatt (mjuk filthatt)

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
呢帽, 足, 脚

idioms:

• trilby hat    一种呢帽

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 呢帽, 足, 腳

idioms:

• trilby hat    一種呢帽

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 소프트모(중절모의 일종), 발

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - トリルビー, 女子名

idioms:

• trilby hat    フェルト製中折れ帽

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) قبعه رجاليه ناعمه ألملمس‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮כובע לבד‬

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