be-stetsoned

1. not comparableAlternative letter-case form of be-Stetsoned.

   These ads showed a wild west, be-stetsoned, industrial woman.

   1969, New Society, page 747

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   In the fifth three be-stetsoned sons bit the dust before “Dink” Templeton’s offerings.

   1921, The Stanford Illustrated Review, page 320

   NO western novel breathing of heroism and reverberating with the crack of pistols in the hands of be-chapped and be-stetsoned heroes would be deemed complete without a mention of the above animal—the coyote.

   1923 September 11, “Among Our Animal Friends: Ow-w! This Pest Can Be so Dismal”, in The Kentucky Post, volume 1, number 90, Covington, Ky., part two, page 4

alternative be-stetsoned · alternative bestetsoned

1. not comparableWearing a Stetson.

   Putting be-Stetsoned heads together were Jay Taylor, left, Mayor Lawrence Hagy, Mr. Stevenson and Lee Bivins.

   1948 March 3, “Ex-Governor Gets in on Verbal Roundup”, in Amarillo Daily News, volume XXXIX, number 104, Amarillo, Tex., page four

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   In two winks and a sneeze the staid old Coast League diamond became transformed Into a dusty corral crowded with bucking mounts, gaily-scarfed vaqueros, daring cowgirls, snorting steers, be-Stetsoned past-masters with the lariat, “six-gun” specialists and whooping Indians—Doug Fairbanks and his efficient aides had torn a page from the history of the olden West, touched the words of Bret Harte and Emerson Hough with art’s mysterious alchemy and rethroned the hard riding, chance-taking cigarette-consuming daredevil of the range.

   1918 January 13, James De Camp, “Cowboys Rope $15,000 for Red Cross Fund; Bucking Mounts Turn Coast League Diamond into Wild West Corral”, in The Los Angeles Times, part VI, page 12

   Before the convention first assembled the picturesque “Old Grey Mare” bandsmen, attired in colorful cowboy garb, be-Stetsoned, be-bandanna-ed and be-chapped, opened matters up with a march through the hall, playing the air for which they are noted all over the United States: “The Old Grey Mare.”

   1923 August 29, “Veterans Hear Landis, Sheppard after Busy Day”, in The Houston Post, volume 39, number 147, Houston, Tex., page 2

   Somebody located the old reed organ we had under the box elders in the back yard and while two be-Stetsoned possemen lay on their stomachs and pumped the bellows, the sheriff poked out “Ninety Nine Years” and “The Birmingham Jail.”

   1950, Roberta McConnell, Never Marry a Ranger, New York, N.Y.: Prentice-Hall, Inc., page 167

   The cinematic template for this archetype was first sketched out in the silent era by Tom Mix, who represented the very essence of a cowboy—be-Stetsoned, athletic, and straight acting.

   2013, Jeff Bush, “East Meets Western: The Eastern Philosophy of Ang Lee’s Brokeback Mountain”, in Robert Arp, Adam Barkman, James McRae, editors, The Philosophy of Ang Lee, University Press of Kentucky, →ISBN, page 78

   Synonyms: Stetsoned