low-crowned

A low-crowned broad-brimmed hat worn, esp. for travelling, in ancient Greece; (Classical Mythol.) a hat of this sort which the god Hermes (or Mercury) is frequently represented as wearing.

Medallion Vulcan | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles 2009

His coat was thick and he had a low-crowned hat crammed upon his head and a muffler about his throat.

The Dressmaker Posie Graeme-Evans 2010

Pxl8/Getty Images Pete Doherty In 1850 William Coke, a prominent landowner and farmer, commissioned a London hat shop to make a sturdy low-crowned hat to protect his gamekeepers 'heads from overhanging tree branches.

The Latest Hat Craze 2009

In the 1600s, two types dominated: a low-crowned hat with a broad brim and a high-crowned, round hat made of beaver.

The Latest Hat Craze 2009

And yet he wears a low-crowned, broad-brimmed, black hat: faintly shadowing forth a kind of insane imitation of an English coachman!

American Notes for General Circulation 2007

Shaking the water-drops from his low-crowned glazed hat, he said,

Wessex Tales 2006

It assumed the form of a low-crowned hat, an ordinary-shaped nose, an ordinary chin, an ordinary neck, and ordinary shoulders.

Under the Greenwood Tree 2006

He was dressed in a pepper-and-salt coat of the Newmarket cut, breeches of corduroy and brown top boots, and had on his head a broad, black, coarse, low-crowned hat.

Wild Wales : Its People, Language and Scenery 2004

On entering the house I was greeted in English by Mr Hugh Pritchard himself, a tall bulky man with a weather-beaten countenance, dressed in a brown jerkin and corduroy trowsers, with a broad low-crowned buff-coloured hat on his head, and what might he called half shoes and half high-lows on his feet.

Wild Wales : Its People, Language and Scenery 2004

What huge fellows they were! almost as huge as the hogs for which they higgled; the generality of them dressed in brown sporting coats, drab breeches, yellow-topped boots, splashed all over with mud, and with low-crowned broad-brimmed hats.

Wild Wales : Its People, Language and Scenery 2004