straw-hat

straw-hat

See also: strawhat and straw hat

English

Adjective

straw-hat (not comparable)

1. Alternative form of strawhat
   • 1940, LIFE (volume 9, number 6, page 31)

     Besides proving that stage lovers have a pretty terrible time, they show that rural audiences are currently seeing the largest troupe of stage and screen stars ever to play the straw-hat circuit.

Noun

straw-hat (plural straw-hats)

1. Alternative form of straw hat
   • 1865, Anthony Trollope, Can You Forgive Her?:

     He had on his head a jaunty little straw-hat, and he wore a jacket with brass buttons, and white trousers.

   • 2012, Ron Hess, A Border Story, →ISBN:

     l walked out into the afternoon sun and instantly noted I didn't have my straw-hat on.

   • 2012, C. Parkes, Children's Literature and Capitalism, →ISBN:

     He had provided himself, among other things, with a complete suit of oil-skin, and a straw-hat with a very low crown, pitched or caulked on the outside.