ten-gallon hat love

Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A cowboy hat, especially one with a high rounded crown.

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  • noun A large cowboy hat, not holding ten gallons like the name would suggest but usually around three quarts.

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  • noun a hat with a wide brim and a soft crown; worn by American ranch hands

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Perhaps from Spanish galón, braid, galloon (wrapped in rows above the brim), from French galon; see galloon.]

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Not certain. An earlier form without the number, gallon hat, comes by folk etymology from the Spanish galón ('braid'). It may also be a hyperbolic reference to the size of the hat, or a combination of the two.

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