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picture hat

noun

  1. a woman's hat having a very broad, flexible brim, often decorated with feathers, flowers, or the like.


picture hat

noun

  1. a decorated hat with a very wide brim, esp as worn by women in paintings by Gainsborough and Reynolds
“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 picture hat1

First recorded in 1885–90
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Example Sentences

“It’s not about their looks,” Louboutin says, as Ionesco emerges from the pool in a picture hat and a one-piece black bandeau, her dark-gray eye shadow smudged languorously.

Yet he distracted from that otherwise well-delivered message with big Scarlett O’Hara picture hats that appeared to have been blown off by a breeze to frame the face and shoulders.

On her head was a monstrous picture hat and on her arm a monstrous bird.

I draw a woman with wide shoulders and a picture hat.

A large picture hat shaded her pale face.

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