behatted

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English

Etymology

From be- +‎ hat +‎ -ed.

Adjective

behatted (not comparable)

  1. Wearing a hat.
    • 1910, Baroness Orczy, chapter 9, in Lady Molly of Scotland Yard, London: Cassell, page 234:
      In strange contrast to her depressing appearance, there sat beside her an over-dressed, much behatted, peroxided young woman, who bore the stamp of the profession all over her pretty, painted face.
    • 1940, Thomas Wolfe, You Can’t Go Home Again, Book 4, Chapter 28, p. 446:
      So brushes teeth, shaves with a safety razor, walks out naked but behatted into his room, starts to go downstairs, remembers clothing []
    • 1984, Peter Applebome, “Texas Primer: The Resistol Hat”, in Texas Monthly, 6/1984:
      If you are among those behatted hordes and live in Texas, chances are yours is a Resistol.
    • 2004, Philip Roth, chapter 8, in The Plot Against America, New York: Vintage, published 2005, page 305:
      [] his closest political cronies (Hopkins, Morgenthau, Farley, Berle, Baruch, all sitting behatted only feet from the coffin of the martyred candidate [] )
    • 2021 October 6, Greg Morse, “A need for speed and the drive for 125”, in RAIL, number 941, page 52:
      Nor all passengers either - one moustachioed, behatted gent interviewed by the BBC lamented the loss of elegance that the trains represented, as he stood in the plastic Mk 3 buffet that today looks somehow chic and inviting. Time changes everything.

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