Meaning of straw-hatted | Babel Free

Definitions

Wearing a straw hat.

not-comparable

Examples

“Informers, Theef-Takers, Dear-Stealers, and Bullies, / Old Straw-hatted Whores, with their Twelve-penny Cullies, / Some Dancing and Skiping, ſome Ranting and Tearing, / Some Drinking and Smoaking, ſome Lying and Swearing;[…]”

“So he might make⟳ bold with Portia as they had done with the Virgin Mary, who in a church, acting their play⟳ called the Incarnation, had uſually the Ave Mary mumbled over to a ſtraddling wench (for the bleſſed Virgin) ſtraw-hatted, blue-aproned, big-bellied, with her immaculate conception up to her chin.”

““Corney Keough!” cried a buckish straw-hatted driver, to a hard sandy-bearded, curly-pated, ragged freeholder, with a crooked half-peeled willow cudgel in his fist, “Corney Keough, I say⟳!—divil fire ye! come⟳ up to the table, Sir!””

“And Sandy Powell’s costumes are fabulous, especially the reds and blues and stripes and polka dots that adorn Mary, from her straw-hatted head to her turned-out feet (What we wouldn’t give⟳ for one of those slender-waisted, caped overcoats, or polka-dot bow ties).”

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