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straw-hat

straw-hat is the alternative form of strawhat.

straw-hat is the alternative form of straw hat.

Meaning of strawhat

Adjective

strawhat (not comparable)

  1. Pertaining to summer theater productions outside an urban or metropolitan area; relating to summer stock.
    • Sierra, long associated with stock companies and as an actor and director in this section of the country, took time during the past years to establish a new model service in town and he will bring some of his cover gals to the strawhat program to drill them for Hollywood or other boards.1946 January 26, “Chi Strawhat With Sierra's Shy Man'kins”, in The Billboard

Meaning of straw hat

Noun

straw hat (plural straw hats)

  1. A stiff hat, made from woven straw.
    • She felt uncomfortable and ridiculous in her heavy straw hat and dark, tight-fitting linen dress with the padded shoulders.2008, Michael Cantwell, Chasing Mayan Dreams: Adventures in the Mexican Rain Forest, →ISBN

Forms of straw-hat

pluralstraw-hats

Questions about straw-hat

What is straw-hat the alternative form of?
Straw-hat is the alternative form of strawhat.

Words near straw-hat in the dictionary

  1. straw-clutching
  2. straw-clutchingly
  3. straw-colored
  4. straw-coloured
  5. straw-grasping
  6. straw-hat
  7. straw-hats
  8. straw-hatted
  9. straw-necked ibis
  10. straw-necked ibises
  11. straw-splitting

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