fe|do|ra

fe|do|ra «fuh DR uh, -DOHR-», noun.

a man's low, soft felt hat with a curved brim. The crown is creased lengthwise: »

He was in…a freshly blocked fedora, dented like a soft bread by the fingers (Saul Bellow).

╂[American English; apparently < Fédora, a play by Victorien Sardou, 1831-1908, a French playwright]