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- noun The state or condition of being
hatless ; absence of ahat .
Etymologies
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Examples
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He may be as much a patron saint of hatlessness as John F. Kennedy is said to have been.
Men without hats: James Ellroy and Eddie Muller on "Crime Wave" Peter Rozovsky 2010
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I think the hatlessness is because of the dreaded 'hat hair.'
Madison schools canceled for cold. Ann Althouse 2007
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She was wandering the streets like any outcast, late at night, without a hat — and her condition of hatlessness she felt to be the chief stigma.
Maurice Guest 2003
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But it was not quite time for that yet: it would be inartistic to suggest that just a couple of weeks of hatlessness had produced so desirable a result.
Queen Lucia 1903
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Of her hatlessness at the State Opening, he says: "I assume maybe she was just uninformed about protocol, but it is her prerogative - maybe she just doesn't feel comfortable in hats."
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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Of her hatlessness at the State Opening, he says: "I assume maybe she was just uninformed about protocol, but it is her prerogative - maybe she just doesn't feel comfortable in hats."
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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But if a religionist is granted the right to wear a hat, then you can’t prove endorsement unless you demonstrate a reason for hatlessness viz. you are granted unfair advantage over or damage to everyone else, in which case the right won’t be granted anyway.
What Does Cutter Mean for Creationism? - The Panda's Thumb 2005
kirstyklip commented on the word hatlessness
The state of being without a hat. Used in Muriel Spark's The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. First published 1961.
May 15, 2009