picture hat

English

Noun

picture hat (plural picture hats)

  1. An elaborate woman's hat with a wide brim, typically black with feathers or other decorations. [from 19th c.]
    Synonym: Gainsborough hat
    • 1913, Norman Lindsay, A Curate in Bohemia, Sydney: N.S.W. Bookstall Co., published 1932, page 64:
      On the way back to the studio he bought a packet of cigarettes, and when Miss Gimblet, in a large picture hat, was discovered waiting for them on the stairs, his voice was loudest in acclaiming the occasion festive.
    • 1915, W. Somerset Maugham, chapter 61, in Of Human Bondage:
      Mildred wore a black picture hat with ostrich feathers in it, which became her well.

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