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behatted

behatted adjective: wearing a hat.

Adjective

behatted (not comparable)

  1. Wearing a hat.
    • In strange contrast to her depressing appearance, there sat beside her an over-dressed, much behatted, peroxided young woman, who bore the stamp of the profession all over her pretty, painted face.1910, Baroness Orczy, chapter 9, in Lady Molly of Scotland Yard, London: Cassell, page 234
    • So brushes teeth, shaves with a safety razor, walks out naked but behatted into his room, starts to go downstairs, remembers clothing […]1940, Thomas Wolfe, You Can’t Go Home Again, Book 4, Chapter 28, p. 446

Examples of behatted in a sentence

  • If you are among those behatted hordes and live in Texas, chances are yours is a Resistol.1984, Peter Applebome, “Texas Primer: The Resistol Hat”, in Texas Monthly, 6/1984:
  • […] his closest political cronies (Hopkins, Morgenthau, Farley, Berle, Baruch, all sitting behatted only feet from the coffin of the martyred candidate […])2004, Philip Roth, chapter 8, in The Plot Against America, New York: Vintage, published 2005, page 305:

Origin of behatted

From be- + hat + -ed.

Questions about behatted

What does behatted mean?
Behatted means wearing a hat.
How do you use behatted in a sentence?
If you are among those behatted hordes and live in Texas, chances are yours is a Resistol.
What part of speech is behatted?
Behatted is an adjective.

Words near behatted in the dictionary

  1. behate
  2. behated
  3. behates
  4. behating
  5. behats
  6. behatted
  7. behatting
  8. behave
  9. behave oneself
  10. behaved
  11. behavedst

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