white hat
noun
a virtuous hero, especially in a cowboy movie; good guy.
white-hatted
-
a word derived from
white hat.
Example Sentences
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In a red-white-and-blue outfit, high-heeled boots and a pageant sash that reads “Cowboy Carter,” she’s a beauty queen and a white-hatted heroine claiming her nation — her country, in both senses.
From New York Times ● Mar. 31, 2024
“Why isn’t Shipulin here?” said Shkarin, the white-hatted fan from Vladivostok.
From New York Times ● Feb. 20, 2018
Part One begins with Uncle Dick recounting how “the American Century” has been marked by a fight that he and a few other white-hatted cowboys have waged to keep the world safe for “freedom.”
From Salon ● Oct. 23, 2015
Only then it was the "Red Berets," France's paratroopers, and the white-hatted Foreign Legionnaires who were fighting the Viet Minh.
From Time Magazine Archive
Members of Parliament are singularly emancipated from these fears of the brave; but members of Parliament cannot supply the whole contingent of white-hatted men now to be seen in the streets of the metropolis.
From Lost Leaders by W. Pett (William Pett) Ridge
