picture hat
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of picture hat
First recorded in 1885–90
Example Sentences
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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 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
On her head was a monstrous picture hat and on her arm a monstrous bird.
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
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