The Collaborative International Dictionary
Broadbrim \Broad"brim`\, n.
A hat with a very broad brim, like those worn by men of the society of Friends.
A member of the society of Friends; a Quaker. [Sportive]
Wiktionary
n. 1 A hat with a very broad brim. 2 (context humorous dated English) A Quaker.
Usage examples of "broadbrim".
His jacket was unwnnkled, his dapple gray and his saddle shone His broadbrimmed hat bore three plumes red, orange and black.
In the daylit corridor he talked with voluble pains of zeal, in duty bound, most fair, most kind, most honest broadbrim.
This the Quaker had observed, and this, added to the rest of his behaviour, inspired honest Broadbrim with a conceit, that his companion was in reality out of his senses.
The fat huckster-women drowsing beside their wares, scarce send their voices beyond the borders of their broadbrimmed straw hats, as they softly haggle with purchasers, or tranquilly gossip together.
They wore broadbrimmed hats and leather vests and they carried escopetas across the pommels of their saddles and as they rode past the leader nodded gravely to them from the captain's horse and touched his hatbrim and they rode on.