BROAD-BRIMMED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does broad-brimmed mean? 

• BROAD-BRIMMED (adjective)
  The adjective BROAD-BRIMMED has 1 sense:

1. (of hats) having a broad brim

  Familiarity information: BROAD-BRIMMED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BROAD-BRIMMED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(of hats) having a broad brim

Similar:

broad; wide (having great (or a certain) extent from one side to the other)

 Context examples 

You shall not make a guy of yourself, remonstrated Meg, as Jo tied down with a red ribbon the broad-brimmed, old-fashioned leghorn Laurie had sent for a joke.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Mr. Omer took off his broad-brimmed hat, and sat down and panted.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Well, she had a slate-coloured, broad-brimmed straw hat, with a feather of a brickish red.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He was dressed in rusty black, with a very broad-brimmed top-hat and a loose white necktie—the whole effect being that of a very rustic parson or of an undertaker’s mute.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

With the shock, his broad-brimmed hat flew from his head, his cravat slipped down from his lips, and there were the long light beard and the soft, handsome delicate features of Colonel Valentine Walter.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“In breeches and gaiters, broad-brimmed hat, grey coat, speckled choker,” said the waiter.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

He carried a broad-brimmed hat in his hand, while he wore across the upper part of his face, extending down past the cheekbones, a black vizard mask, which he had apparently adjusted that very moment, for his hand was still raised to it as he entered.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I looked out for Mr. Barkis, but he was not there; and instead of him a fat, short-winded, merry-looking, little old man in black, with rusty little bunches of ribbons at the knees of his breeches, black stockings, and a broad-brimmed hat, came puffing up to the coach window, and said: Master Copperfield?

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Looking over his shoulder, I saw that on the pavement opposite there stood a large woman with a heavy fur boa round her neck, and a large curling red feather in a broad-brimmed hat which was tilted in a coquettish Duchess of Devonshire fashion over her ear.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)