(Formerly often hyphened.) A hat made of plaited or woven straw.
1453. in Sharp, Cov. Myst. (1825), 190. iiij surplis & iiij stre hatts.
a. 1500. Bale’s Chron., in Six Town Chron. (1911), 133. In a blewe gown of velvet, and a strawe hat upon his heed.
1603. Fowldes, Homer’s Battle Frogs & Mice (1634), C 3. Next with a corslet they defend the heart, Not made of steele, but of an old straw-hat.
1697. Lond. Gaz., No. 3325/4. A Straw Hat lined with Painted Callicoe.
1712. Steele, Spect., No. 304, ¶ 9. An Handmaid in a Straw-Hat.
1837. Dickens, Pickw., vii. Several other gentlemen dressed … in straw hats, flannel jackets, and white trowsers.
1890. Eliz. Carmichael, trans. Björnson’s In God’s Way, II. i. 57. Their light summer clothes,… felt hats, straw hats, tulle hats, [etc.].
b. attrib. (Now usually hyphened.)
1795. Vancouver, Agric. Essex, 27. A straw-hat manufactory has lately been established.
1835. Ure, Philos. Manuf., 255. An obscure straw-hat manufacturer.
Hence Straw-hatted a., wearing a straw hat.
c. 1730. Ramsay, Betty & Kate, ii. The strae-hatted maid.
1884. Howells, Silas Lapham (1891), I. 141. A straw-hatted population, such as ours is in summer.
