picture hat

American  

noun

1. a woman's hat having a very broad, flexible brim, often decorated with feathers, flowers, or the like.

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picture hat British  

noun

1. a decorated hat with a very wide brim, esp as worn by women in paintings by Gainsborough and Reynolds

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Etymology

Origin of picture hat

First recorded in 1885–90

Example Sentences

On the backs of magazines she rested, smiling dreamily, in fields of daisies, wearing a picture hat.

From Time Magazine Archive

She was soignee in a platinum mink stole and picture hat.

From Time Magazine Archive

The most recent creation, a picture hat with a raffia band, can be adjusted into shapes that range from a cowboy stetson to a Garbo cloche, and costs $50.

From Time Magazine Archive

Last week, tricked out in a yellow and pink garden dress, picture hat and orange and magenta feather boa, Puerto Rico pursued a hapless, grinning amateur into the wings.

From Time Magazine Archive

On her head was a monstrous picture hat and on her arm a monstrous bird.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole