Meanings
plural terai hats
- A wide-brimmed ventilated sunhat worn in subtropical regions.
She used to trot up and down Simla Mall in a forlorn sort of way, with a grey Terai hat well on the back of her head, and a shocking bad saddle under her.
1888, Rudyard Kipling, “The Other Man”, in Plain Tales from the Hills, Folio, published 2005, page 65
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