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sunhat

British  
/ ˈsʌnˌhæt /

noun

  1. a hat that shades the face and neck from the sun

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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King co-signed her saggy sunhat with a description provided to EW that could be interpreted as shade: “It's perfect, as if some beautiful, fashionable Hindenburg suddenly dropped on her head.”

From Salon Jun. 7, 2025

It’s early October and the German actor, looking elegant in a long, dark blue dress and matching sunhat, is sitting poolside on a Beverly Hills hotel rooftop.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 8, 2022

Hudgens, 32, stunned in a multi-colored bikini paired with a yellow sunhat.

From Fox News Jul. 24, 2021

Kaoru Sugiyami, wearing a large floppy sunhat, had also come with a group of friends.

From BBC Apr. 29, 2019

Grandma was there too, in a big weird sunhat and those dark plastic inserts you wear behind your glasses if you’re a certain kind of old lady and want to block the sun.

From "The Miseducation of Cameron Post" by emily m. danforth

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