straw-hat
English
[edit]Adjective
[edit]straw-hat (not comparable)
- 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
[edit]straw-hat (plural straw-hats)
- 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.