What is "hatband"

Usage examples of "hatband".

The second boy in the school led the procession in a military dress, with a truncheon in his hand, and bore for the day the title of Marshal: then followed the Captain, supported by his Chaplain, the head scholar of the fifth form, dressed in a suit of black, with a large bushy wig, and a broad beaver decorated with a twisted silk hatband and rose, the fashionable distinction of the dignified clergy of that day.

Sweat drips down from my hatband and flies swarm onto our stillness to take advantage of the moisture, crawling over my eyes and lips until I swat them away.

In a typical experiment, the word hatband is flashed on a screen-but hat is in the left visual field and band in the right visual field.

He wore a blue suit, a blue shirt, a blue-and-gray regimental tie, rimless spectacles, black shoes, and earlier he had been wearing a conservative gray bowler hat with a darker gray hatband, but he had lost that.

He withdrew it from his hatband, where he always wore it aslant like a feather.

From beneath the expensive fedora, which boasted what looked like a small fly-whisk tucked neatly into the hatband on the left side, emerged white, slightly curly hair that in places still showed insinuations of blond.

I removed the paper wadding from inside the hatband and pulled the hat down over my ears.

His raven black hair was neatly combed beneath the black Stetson hat, on which sparkled a hatband made of silver conchos.

Marissa noticed he was sporting a different hat, one just as woebegone as the day before, but with a fishnet around the hatband for a decorative touch.

Her black hair was caught in a sedate twist at the nape of her neck, and she wore her black Stetson with a wide silver hatband low over her eyes, obscuring her face but revealing a defined jaw line.

They’ll look as queer as Dick’s hatband, they will, the silly chubs, when I tells ’em you was at home all the time.

The windless balminess of the morning had a frost-edge sparkle to it, but the crowds that filled the square before the Cathedral of the Three all seemed to be wearing flowers on their shoulders, bosoms, and hatbands, like the pledge of beauty to come.

Hollo, thinks I, he ain't one of the Dick's hatband brigade, surely?

Tight as Dick's hatband, of course, but it proved how right I'd been to give her an encore.

After all, her only husband had been as fishy as Dick's hatband, by all accounts, and however many young stalwarts she'd whistled up since then, they wouldn't have my style.