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straw hat
Also strawhat and with hyphen.
1. a. (Formerly often hyphened.) A hat made of plaited or woven straw.
1453in Sharp Cov. Myst. (1825) 190, iiij surplis & iiij stre hatts. a1500Bale's Chron. in Six Town Chron. (1911) 133 In a blewe gown of velvet..and a strawe hat upon his heed. 1603Fowldes Homer's Battle Frogs & Mice (1634) C 3, Next with a corslet they defend the heart, Not made of steele, but of an old straw-hat. 1697Lond. Gaz. No. 3325/4 A Straw Hat lined with Painted Callicoe. 1712Steele Spect. No. 304 ⁋9 An Handmaid in a Straw-Hat. 1837Dickens Pickw. vii, Several other gentlemen dressed..in straw hats, flannel jackets, and white trowsers. 1890Eliz. Carmichael tr. Björnson's In God's Way ii. i. 57 Their light summer clothes,..felt hats, straw hats, tulle hats.
b. attrib. (Now usually hyphened.)
1795Vancouver Agric. Essex 27 A straw-hat manufactory has lately been established. 1835Ure Philos. Manuf. 255 An obscure straw-hat manufacturer.
2. U.S. Theatr. A summer theatre; a theatre operating during the summer only and presenting various productions or companies. Freq. attrib.
1935Variety 12 June 62/4 (heading) Nearly 100 straw hat troupes will dot eastern landscape. 1936A. Green in Esquire Sept. 160/3 A summer stock (legit) is a ‘straw hat’. 1946Life 5 Aug. 81/1 More than 125 straw-hat theaters now adorn the eastern sea-coast. 1948Sun (Baltimore) 24 June 16/1 They appeared in the same roles last year on the strawhat circuit. 1952Ibid. 10 June (B* ed.) 10/1 The play is not the thing this week at the Maryland strawhat. 1968N.Y. Times Bk. Rev. 23 June vii. 5/4 They finagle their way into the strawhat dramatic workshop of a famous theater guru.
Hence straw-hatted a., wearing a straw hat; straw-hatter, a straw-hat theatre, or play presented in one; straw-hatting vbl. n., work in straw-hat theatres.
c1730Ramsay Betty & Kate ii, The strae-hatted maid. 1884Howells Silas Lapham (1891) I. 141 A straw-hatted population, such as ours is in summer. 1949N.Y. Times Mag. 21 Aug. 24/4 The trick of operating a successful straw-hatter is to build up a steady clientele—a sizable number of people who get the habit of regular attendance because they have learned that the general average of production is good. 1950Richmond (Va.) Times-Dispatch 9 Dec. 5/1 Strawhatting is arduous. 1954Wall St. Jrnl. 4 Aug. 9 The Howard Lindsay-Russell Crouse straw hatter (‘Life with Father’) subsequently made Broadway. |