Meanings
alternative strawhatted
- not comparableWearing a straw hat.
Informers, Theef-Takers, Dear-Stealers, and Bullies, / Old Straw-hatted Whores, with their Twelve-penny Cullies, / Some Dancing and Skiping, ſome Ranting and Tearing, / Some Drinking and Smoaking, ſome Lying and Swearing;[…]
1699, [Ned Ward], A Walk to Islington: With a Description of New Tunbridge-Wells, and Sadler’s Musick-House, London, page 153 more examples
So he might make bold with Portia as they had done with the Virgin Mary, who in a church, acting their play called the Incarnation, had uſually the Ave Mary mumbled over to a ſtraddling wench (for the bleſſed Virgin) ſtraw-hatted, blue-aproned, big-bellied, with her immaculate conception up to her chin.
1776, John Hawkins, A General History of the Science and Practice of Music, volume the second, London: […] T. Payne and Son, […], page 50“Corney Keough!” cried a buckish straw-hatted driver, to a hard sandy-bearded, curly-pated, ragged freeholder, with a crooked half-peeled willow cudgel in his fist, “Corney Keough, I say!—divil fire ye! come up to the table, Sir!”
1826 July 13, “County Galway Election”, in The Morning Chronicle, number 17,732, LondonAnd Sandy Powell’s costumes are fabulous, especially the reds and blues and stripes and polka dots that adorn Mary, from her straw-hatted head to her turned-out feet (What we wouldn’t give for one of those slender-waisted, caped overcoats, or polka-dot bow ties).
2018 December 13, Jocelyn Noveck, “Poppins is practically perfect: Emily Blunt is confident and saucy as role’s heir”, in The Daily News, volume 96, number 220, page D3
Origin
Translations
Hungarian szalmakalapos
- szalmakalaposwearing a straw hat
Polish noszący słomkowy kapelusz
- noszący słomkowy kapeluszwearing a straw hat
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