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

[From the fashion of wearing straw hats during the summer.]

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Examples

  • What stories one could make of the straw-hat covered girl looking back!

    Archive 2008-06-01 ____Maggie 2008

  • What stories one could make of the straw-hat covered girl looking back!

    Lookee-Here! ____Maggie 2008

  • 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.

    The welfare state’s dirty little secret is out 2010

  • 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

  • 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

  • A few minutes later a bearded man in overalls and straw-hat appeared.

    The Mennonites: a Dutch heritage in Mexico 2003

  • A few minutes later a bearded man in overalls and straw-hat appeared.

    The Mennonites: a Dutch heritage in Mexico 2003

  • 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

  • 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

  • The straw-hat was an ordinary garden head-screen, common to a score besides myself.

    Villette 2003

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