词汇 | muller |
词源 | muller. Our murderer wore a low-crowned felt hat pulled down over his face in an attempt to disguise himself. But his scheme didn’t work. Mr. Muller was arrested and convicted of murder, the publicity attending his hat making it more famous than the killer himself. Not only was Muller the prototype for countless real and fictional villains with large-brimmed hats pulled down over their eyes, but his name came to mean “a deerstalker hat” in England from about 1855 to 1885, a muller probably being the only hat in history that was named for a murderer. |
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