Meaning

Wearing a straw hat..

Example Sentences

Informers, Theef-Takers, Dear-Stealers, and Bullies, / Old Straw-hatted Whores, with their Twelve-penny Cullies, / Some Dancing and Skiping, ſome Ranting and Tearing, / Some Drinking and Smoaking, ſome Lying and Swearing;[…]

So he might make bold with Portia as they had done with the Virgin Mary, who in a church, acting their play called the Incarnation, had uſually the Ave Mary mumbled over to a ſtraddling wench (for the bleſſed Virgin) ſtraw-hatted, blue-aproned, big-bellied, with her immaculate conception up to her chin.

“Corney Keough!” cried a buckish straw-hatted driver, to a hard sandy-bearded, curly-pated, ragged freeholder, with a crooked half-peeled willow cudgel in his fist, “Corney Keough, I say!—divil fire ye! come up to the table, Sir!”

And Sandy Powell’s costumes are fabulous, especially the reds and blues and stripes and polka dots that adorn Mary, from her straw-hatted head to her turned-out feet (What we wouldn’t give for one of those slender-waisted, caped overcoats, or polka-dot bow ties).

Word Forms

• strawhatted

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Use straw-hatted when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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