Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of or relating to summer theater that operates in suburban or resort areas.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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What stories one could make of the straw-hat covered girl looking back!
Archive 2008-06-01 ____Maggie 2008
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What stories one could make of the straw-hat covered girl looking back!
Lookee-Here! ____Maggie 2008
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First of all: There was that picture of the lady with straw-hat, tea-bags attached to it, on a rally of the “Tea-Party” in 2009.
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In company with the other officers on board the ship, I paid my respects to the illustrious exile of Longwood, who received us in his garden, where he was walking about, in a nankeen dress and a large broad-brimmed straw-hat, with General Montholon, Count Las Casas, and his son
Burlesques 2006
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Then there is a quilted calamanco coat, and a pair of stockings I bought of the pedlar, and my straw-hat with blue strings; and a remnant of Scots cloth, which will make two shirts and two shifts, the same I have on, for my poor father and mother.
Pamela 2006
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A few minutes later a bearded man in overalls and straw-hat appeared.
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A few minutes later a bearded man in overalls and straw-hat appeared.
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Some upper flannel garment, and something in the nature of trousers, with a belt round his middle, and an old straw-hat would be all the wardrobe required by him.
John Caldigate 2004
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How my heart palpitated with delight when, through apertures in the envious boughs, I at once caught the gleam of your graceful straw-hat, and the waving of your grey dress — dress that I should recognise amongst a thousand.
Villette 2003
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The straw-hat was an ordinary garden head-screen, common to a score besides myself.
Villette 2003
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