Definition of "steeple-crowned" [stee•ple-crowned]

• Bearing a steeple. (adjective)
• Having a crown shaped like a steeple; ; also, wearing a hat with such a crown. (adjective)

Gnu Collaboartive International Dictionary of English: licensed under The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

• "Before the prison-door stand “a throng of bearded men, in sad-colored garments and gray, steeple-crowned hats. . .”"
• "His dress was a torn suit of rifle green, garnished here and there with red; a steeple-crowned hat, innocent of nap, with a broken and bedraggled feather stuck in the band; and a flaming red neckerchief hanging on his shoulders."
• "Puritan elders in their black cloaks, starched bands, and steeple-crowned hats, smiled not unbenignantly at the clamour and rude deportment of these jolly seafaring men; and it excited neither surprise nor animadversion when so reputable a citizen as old Roger Chillingworth, the physician, was seen to enter the market-place in close and familiar talk with the commander of the questionable vessel."