STRAW HAT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does straw hat mean? 

• STRAW HAT (noun)
  The noun STRAW HAT has 1 sense:

1. a stiff hat made of straw with a flat crown

  Familiarity information: STRAW HAT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STRAW HAT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A stiff hat made of straw with a flat crown

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

boater; leghorn; Panama; Panama hat; sailor; skimmer; straw hat

Hypernyms ("straw hat" is a kind of...):

chapeau; hat; lid (headdress that protects the head from bad weather; has shaped crown and usually a brim)

 Context examples 

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)

All of us, without a word, shook hands with Professor Challenger, who raised his straw hat and bowed deeply to each in turn.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

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

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

As to the straw hat and blue ribbons which was on the top of the curls, if I could only have hung it up in my room in Buckingham Street, what a priceless possession it would have been!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Picture him seated upon a rock, his absurd boyish straw hat tilted on the back of his head, his supercilious eyes dominating us from under his drooping lids, his great black beard wagging as he slowly defined our present situation and our future movements.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The scent of a geranium leaf, at this day, strikes me with a half comical half serious wonder as to what change has come over me in a moment; and then I see a straw hat and blue ribbons, and a quantity of curls, and a little black dog being held up, in two slender arms, against a bank of blossoms and bright leaves.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)