strawhatted
English
Adjective
strawhatted (not comparable)
- Alternative form of straw-hatted
- 1949 March, Angus Wilson, “Significant Experience”, in The Wrong Set and Other Stories, London: Secker & Warburg, published 1961, page 178:
- Now he could take in particular groups—the policeman’s argument with a tram driver that grew into a crowd of gesticulating, shouting onlookers, the occasional Anglo Indian returning to England stopped by the Arab carpet merchant or the strawhatted, over-toothed tout, the jostling group of bourgeoises buying from the outside stalls of the Bon Marché.
- 1959, “The European Western—By George N. Fenin and William K. Everson”, in Film Culture, number 20, page 66:
- Then three gum-chewing, strawhatted, dress-suited gangsters emerge from an oversize limousine and engage Albers in a full-scale gun battle.
- 1979, James Robert Parish, William T. Leonard, Gregory W. Mank, Charles Hoyt, “Harold Lloyd”, in The Funsters, New Rochelle, N.Y.: Arlington House Publishers, →ISBN, page 431:
- He was forever playing the bespectacled, strawhatted, bound-to-succeed American boy, garbed in bargain-basement suit.
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