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- adjective Having a broad
brim .
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Examples
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I hiked into palm washes and up unmarked trails, always water, carrying water everywhere, always a hat, wearing a broadbrimmed hat and a neckerchief, and I stood on promontories in punishing sun, stood and looked.
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And a broadbrimmed black hat to keep the sawdust out of your collar.
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The 31-year-old former secretary gives little obvious sign of extravagence, preferring for official occasions conservative pale blue suits with broadbrimmed hats in a style more suited to middle-aged matrons.
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They intercepted a ferret wearing a broadbrimmed straw hat and short pants.
The Time of the Transference Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1987
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Her elocutionary attempts were not quite satisfactory to herself, but she was not to be daunted; and when morning came, she took heart of grace, slung her broadbrimmed hat over her arm, and began her march
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 29, March, 1860 Various
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The orator, squinting at him under his broadbrimmed hat, asked him sternly, what brought him thither and whether he was for the good old cause?
Candide 1918
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LYSTER: _ (In quakergrey kneebreeches and broadbrimmed hat, says discreetly) _ He is our friend.
Ulysses James Joyce 1911
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He glanced down at the Quaker clothes he wore, and made a gesture towards the broadbrimmed hat reposing on a footstool near by.
The Weavers: a tale of England and Egypt of fifty years ago - Complete Gilbert Parker 1897
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He glanced down at the Quaker clothes he wore, and made a gesture towards the broadbrimmed hat reposing on a footstool near by.
The Weavers: a tale of England and Egypt of fifty years ago - Volume 2 Gilbert Parker 1897
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He glanced down at the Quaker clothes he wore, and made a gesture towards the broadbrimmed hat reposing on a footstool near by.
The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker Gilbert Parker 1897
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