straw-hat

1. alternativenot comparableAlternative form of strawhat.

   Besides proving that stage lovers have a pretty terrible time, they show that rural audiences are currently seeing the largest troupe of stage and screen stars ever to play the straw-hat circuit.

   1940, LIFE, volume 9, number 6, page 31

plural straw-hats

1. alternativeAlternative form of straw hat.

   l walked out into the afternoon sun and instantly noted I didn't have my straw-hat on.

   2012, Ron Hess, A Border Story, →ISBN

   2 more examples

   He had on his head a jaunty little straw-hat, and he wore a jacket with brass buttons, and white trousers.

   1865, Anthony Trollope, Can You Forgive Her?

   He had provided himself, among other things, with a complete suit of oil-skin, and a straw-hat with a very low crown, pitched or caulked on the outside.

   2012, C. Parkes, Children's Literature and Capitalism, →ISBN