strawhat

1. not comparablePertaining to summer theater productions outside an urban or metropolitan area; relating to summer stock.

   Boaty took the proposition one step further by volunteering to produce this first venture on the strawhat circuit.

   2011, Emily W. Leider, Myrna Loy: The Only Good Girl in Hollywood, →ISBN, page 295

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   Sierra, long associated with stock companies and as an actor and director in this section of the country, took time during the past years to establish a new model service in town and he will bring some of his cover gals to the strawhat program to drill them for Hollywood or other boards.

   1946 January 26, “Chi Strawhat With Sierra's Shy Man'kins”, in The Billboard

   All three of them are concerned only with becoming actors and they finagle their way into the strawhat dramatic workshop of a famous theater guru, whose characterization is done with deadly wit.

   2007, Harold Bloom, James Baldwin, →ISBN, page 199

plural strawhats

1. alternativeAlternative form of straw hat.

   During those early years in the store, Oleta had a black strawhat.

   1996, Michel Oesterreicher, Pioneer Family: Life on Florida's Twentieth-Century Frontier, →ISBN, page 163

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   He could be a fisherman under his strawhat and with his trousers rolled up to his knees.

   2010, Rosita G. Fanto, Rozalia Alone, →ISBN

   General Sickles's butler was not to be found anywhere on the premises, as he was already out and about, attempting to find a suitable strawhat that might lend credence to the boy's Amish upbringing.

   2014, James A. Wynne, Sunrise at Seminary Ridge - Volume 2, →ISBN, page 334