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/pˈɪktʃər hæt/ Listen

Picture hat

noun

A woman's dressy hat with a wide brim.

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"Picture hat" Quotes from Famous Books

... let us say that the woman in question must at the very outset decide whether she would look pretty or chic, sacrificing the one for the other, or if she insists upon both, carefully arrange a compromise. As for example, combine a semi-picture hat with a ...

— Woman as Decoration • Emily Burbank

... girl with a white muslin dress and a picture hat has any troubles in this world she has a wonderful skill ...

— Oklahoma Sunshine • Freeman E. (Freeman Edwin) Miller

... she was wearing a picture hat, decorated with white ostrich feathers, a soiled fawn dust-coat, and high-heeled patent leather shoes. She brought with her innumerable flimsy parcels (causing, by comparison, a collapsible Japanese basket to look substantially built), and a gaily-dressed ...

— Sparrows - The Story of an Unprotected Girl • Horace W. C. Newte

... down in the chair with as good a grace as she could muster, and arranged her big picture hat so that the spring sun should not draw Sir Jonathan's attention to the methods she employed to combat the rapidity with which what remained of her prettiness, prematurely faded by the Indian ...

— Leonie of the Jungle • Joan Conquest

... the gods, divinely tall and most divinely fair, she sat on a throne of ducal luggage, looking queenly in an elegant white shirt waist, built mostly of holes and eminently suited to her style of beauty as well as the weather. She also had on a picture hat, which was superfluous as she would have been a picture without it, and below the waist she ...

— Lady Betty Across the Water • Charles Norris Williamson and Alice Muriel Williamson