Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Panama hat \Pan`a*ma" hat`\ A fine plaited hat, made in Central America of the young leaves of a plant ( Carludovica palmata).
Wikipedia
A Panama hat (toquilla straw hat) is a traditional brimmed straw hat of Ecuadorian origin. Traditionally, hats were made from the plaited leaves of the Carludovica palmata plant, known locally as the toquilla palm or jipijapa palm, although it is a palm-like plant rather than a true palm.
Panama hats are light-colored, lightweight, and breathable, and often worn as accessories to summer-weight suits, such as those made of linen or silk. Beginning around the turn of the 20th century, panamas began to be associated with the seaside and tropical locales.
The art of weaving the traditional Ecuadorian toquilla hat was added to the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage Lists on 6 December 2012. Panama hat is an Intangible Cultural Heritage, a term used to define practices, traditions, knowledge and skills communities pass down from generation to generation as part of their cultural heritage.
Usage examples of "panama hat".
He selected a gaudy green-and-orange flowered shirt and a Panama hat.
An expensive Panama hat was perched at a jaunty angle over steel-gray hair that flowed back from the temples.
If flamboyance was his trademark, it was demonstrated by a wide-brimmed panama hat sporting a colorful band, a pair of expensive designer sandals, and a tall iced drink in one hand.
The general removed the Panama hat from his head and smoothed back his sparkling silver hair with the palm of his hand.
He sat there in his cricket shirt and braces with Panama hat upon his head under the brilliant sun of the Hawaiian Islands, the bread and the corned beef un tasted on the deck beside him, concentrating on doing the one thing that he had been taught, keeping the tiddy little triangle upon the lubber line.
You don't get anywhere filling with rich foods a bloke who wears a Panama hat like his: the only way of inducing the L.
Even now, she could recall each detail of his dress, how brightly his boots shone, the head of a Medusa in cameo on his cravat phi, the wide Panama hat that was instantly in his hand when he saw her.
Only his father, of course, would not have worn a dirty Panama hat, especially in the house, or a bibbed white apron stained with catsup or trousers fastened with a safety pin.
Although his rakish Panama hat was gone, and in spite of the darkness, the gunman was clearly recognizable: the storyteller.