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Panama hat

noun

  1. a hat made of finely plaited young leaves of the jipijapa, a palmlike plant of Central and South America.


Panama hat

noun

  1. sometimes not capital a hat made of the plaited leaves of the jipijapa plant of Central and South America Often shortened topanamaPanama
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of Panama hat1

First recorded in 1825–35
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Example Sentences

He wore a grey flannel suit and a panama hat pulled down over his eyes.

He was a big, clumsy brute in the white linen suit of a respectable business man and a panama hat.

On one occasion a fire did start, but he succeeded in extinguishing it with his panama hat.

Suddenly she recognized the broad back and the familiar but very unseasonable panama hat.

Seated in a kind of porch, beside an immense telescope, was a very old man in a panama hat, with a rattan cane.

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