Straw Hat

  

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Straw Hat

Definition: Straw Hat

Straw Hat

Noun

1. A stiff straw hat with a flat crown.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

 

Synonyms: Straw Hat

Synonyms: boater (n), leghorn (n), panama (n), sailor (n), skimmer (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Straw Hat

English words defined with "straw hat": boaterleghornPanamasailor, skimmer, Sombrero. (references)
Specialty definitions using "straw hat": brim buster, brim plater, BRIM PRESSER I. (references)

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Modern Usage: Straw Hat

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Yes, with the straw hat! (The Smiling Lieutenant; writing credit: Henri Bataille; Felix Dormann)

You see, George, you're sort of like a ragged straw hat with a very soft lining (Design for Living; writing credit: Noel Coward; Ben Hecht)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Straw Hat

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Books

  • Le Brun: Self Portrait in a Straw Hat (Pocket Jigsaw Puzzles Series Ii) (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: Straw Hat

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Badly Wounded Spanish Prisoners, at Brigade Hospital in rear of the lines. : Man in straw hat fired nearly all day at one battalion and stood off Capt. Frederick and his men. This hospital was in a grove of huge mango trees. (July 3, 98). Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Ship's officers and crewmen pose on deck, while she was serving on the James River, Virginia, August 1864. Commander Alexander C. Rhind, ship's Commanding Officer, is at the extreme right with his foot on the ladder. Standing next to him is Assistant Surgeon Herman P. Babcock. Lieutenant George Dewey is in the right center, wearing a straw hat, directly below the end of the davit. The pivot gun is one of the ship's two 100-pounder Parrot rifles. Note Marine in the left foreground. Credit: NAVY.

Straw hat makers in Javanese Village seated before Javanese house, Paris Exposition, 1889. Credit: Library of Congress.

Young man, wearing straw hat, reading to two men, Harper's Ferry. Credit: Library of Congress.

Man in straw hat standing on Buddhist idol at ruins of Borobudur. Credit: Library of Congress.

  

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Use in Literature: Straw Hat

TitleAuthorQuote

Grapes of Wrath

Steinbeck, John

He wore white shoes and a flat straw hat.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Straw Hat

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

straw hat

1,340

boater straw hat

9

man straw hat

51

chinese straw hat

9

straw hat pizza

38

hawaiian straw hat

7

western straw hat

31

straw hat craft

7

straw hat wholesale

23

woman straw hat

6

womens straw hat

18

gambler straw hat

6

panama straw hat

15

man dress straw hat

5

lady straw hat

11

black straw hat

5

stetson straw hat

10

mexican straw hat

4

child straw hat

10

raffia straw hat

2

man panama straw hat

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Straw Hat

Language Translations for "straw hat"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Finnish

  

olkihattu. (various references)

   

German

  

Strohhut. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

ψάθινο καπέλο. (various references)

   

Italian

  

paglietta (boater, scourer, sequin, Spangle). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

麦藁帽子 , 麦稈帽子 , 夏帽子 (summer hat), ストレプトマイシン難聴 (bird of paradise flower, strangeness, stranger, straw, Strelitzia reginae, streptomycin deafness, strobe, stroke, stroke play). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

なつぼうし (summer hat), ストローハット , むぎわらぼうし. (various references)

   

Manx

  

feegan coonlee (table mat). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

awstray athay.(various references)

   

Spanish

  

sombrero de paja (sailor hat). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

halmhatt (boater). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

hasır şapka (boater, chip hat, straw). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Straw Hat

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: strawhat.

Words within the letters "a-a-h-r-s-t-t-w"

-1 letter: athwart, thwarts.

-2 letters: arhats, attars, strata, strath, swarth, tatars, thraws, thwart, wraths.

-3 letters: arhat, attar, awash, haars, harts, start, straw, swart, swath, tahrs, tarts, tatar, thaws, thraw, trash, warts, watts, whats, wrath.

-4 letters: aahs, arts, haar, hart, hast, hats, haws, rash, rath, rats, raws, shaw, star, stat, staw, swat, tahr, tars, tart, tats, taws.

-5 letters: aah.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-h-r-s-t-t-w"
 

+2 letters: bathwaters.

 

+3 letters: athwartship, straightway, weathercast.

 

+4 letters: athwartships, straightaway, weathercasts.

 

+5 letters: northeastward, southeastward, straightaways, weathercaster.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Images: Photo Album
8. Quotations: Fiction
9. Expressions: Internet
10. Translations: Modern
11. Anagrams
12. Bibliography


  

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