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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—P

Penthouse

(2 syl.). A hat with a broad brim. The allusion is to the hood of a door, or coping of a roof. (Welsh, penty; Spanish, pentice, French, appentice, also pente, a slope.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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