straw-hatted
adjEtymology From straw hat + -ed.
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Wearing a straw hat.
- 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;[…]1699, [Ned Ward], A Walk to Islington: With a Description of New Tunbridge-Wells, and Sadler’s Musick-House, London, page 15:
- 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.1776, John Hawkins, A General History of the Science and Practice of Music, volume the second, London: […] T. Payne and Son, […], page 50:
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- “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!”1826 July 13, “County Galway Election”, in The Morning Chronicle, number 17,732, London:
- 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).2018 December 13, Jocelyn Noveck, “Poppins is practically perfect: Emily Blunt is confident and saucy as role’s heir”, in The Daily News, volume 96, number 220, page D3: