strawhatted

English

Adjective

strawhatted (not comparable)

1. Alternative form of straw-hatted
   • 1949 March, Angus Wilson, “Significant Experience”, in The Wrong Set and Other Stories, London: Secker & Warburg, published 1961, page 178:

     Now he could take in particular groups—the policeman’s argument with a tram driver that grew into a crowd of gesticulating, shouting onlookers, the occasional Anglo Indian returning to England stopped by the Arab carpet merchant or the strawhatted, over-toothed tout, the jostling group of bourgeoises buying from the outside stalls of the Bon Marché.

   • 1959, “The European Western—By George N. Fenin and William K. Everson”, in Film Culture, number 20, page 66:

     Then three gum-chewing, strawhatted, dress-suited gangsters emerge from an oversize limousine and engage Albers in a full-scale gun battle.

   • 1979, James Robert Parish, William T. Leonard, Gregory W. Mank, Charles Hoyt, “Harold Lloyd”, in The Funsters, New Rochelle, N.Y.: Arlington House Publishers, →ISBN, page 431:

     He was forever playing the bespectacled, strawhatted, bound-to-succeed American boy, garbed in bargain-basement suit.